On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think that we'll soon be buried in gripes if they're not. Pretty much
> the whole point of this patch is to allow applications to get rid of
> ad-hoc, it-usually-works coding techniques. I'd argue that not checking
> the entire constraint identity is about as fragile as trying to "sed"
> the constraint name out of a potentially-localized error message.
> In both cases, it often works fine, until the application's context
> changes.
+1.
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