Re: CHECK constraints in pg_dump

> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > I notice that we're still dumping CHECK constraints as part of the
CREATE
> > TABLE statement, and not as an ALTER TABLE statement after the data has
been
> > loaded.
>
> > Should we move it to after the data for speed purposes, like we have
with
> > all other constraints?
>
> Why would there be any speed advantage?

Is it not faster to add it when all the data is there, rather than
evaluating it as each row is inserted, like indexes?

Chris