Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints

On Thursday 2005-12-08 15:47, Simon Riggs wrote:

> does of course already exist, so the following should cause dependency
> violation ERRORs:
> - omitting the CASCADE when attempting to delete parent constraint
> - attempting to drop the child constraint

Why should dropping the child constraint fail?  

Child tables are supposed to be able to over-ride parent constraints.  
Dropping a parent's constraint sounds like just a way to over-ride a 
constraint with no constraint at all.  (Making the column unconstrained.)