Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> ?hel kenal p?eval, E, 2006-03-06 kell 12:12, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
> > Added to TODO:
> > 
> >       o Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> >         like CHECK that are inherited by child tables
> > 
> >         Dropping constraints should only be possible with CASCADE.
> > 
> > and we already have this in TODO:
> > 
> >         o %Prevent child tables from altering or dropping constraints
> >           like CHECK that were inherited from the parent table
> > 
> > so I think we now have all the failure cases documented.
> 
> If you want to be consistent, then ALTER TABLE ONLY ADD CONSTRAINT  .. 
> should also be forbidden, so you can't create non-inherited constraints

I don't have a problem with creating ONLY constraints on parents and
children.  We just don't want them to be removed/modified if they are
shared.

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