On a separate note. The one major remaining piece here is in constraints. I'm thinking what I have to check is that every constraint present on the parent table is present on the child tables. And I'm thinking I should do that by looking at the constraint's textual definition (consrc).
This doesn't allow you to get by with a single stronger constraint -- you would still need the redundant looser constraint to satisfy the inheritance. But it does let you get by with constraint names that don't match the parent's. I'm not sure that's such a good thing, since pg_dump would then generate a redundant constraint when it generates the table. Maybe that would go if constraints got conislocal and coninh. Or maybe I should insist that a matching constraint name be present *and* that the source text match? That's more of a pain to code though. Is there a convenient hash module in the source for small simple hashes that don't require disk spilling? Just a string->string thing I could look up constraint definitions by name from? -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly