> > 8.4 had this change:
> >
> >         *
> >           Force child tables to inherit CHECK constraints from parents
> >           (Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom)
>
> > You're not the only one who occasionally bangs his head against it.
>
>
Sorry for the occasional head bumps :)


> Yeah.  I think it's good that there's a barrier to blindly dropping a
> constraint that may be important to have on children, but there should
> be a way to override that.
>
>
Hmmm, but then it does open up the possibility of naive users shooting
themselves in the foot. It can be easy to conjure up a
parent-only-constraint that does not gel too well with its children. And
that's precisely why this feature was added in the first place..

Regards,
Nikhils

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