On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil.sonta...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> 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..
Yeah, but I think we need to take that chance. At the very least, we need to support the equivalent of a non-inherited CHECK (false) on parent tables. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
