Re: creating index names automatically?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: creating index names automatically?
Date: 2009-12-23 03:52:08
Message-ID: 20091223035208.GA4511@alvh.no-ip.org
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Wait a minute. I must have been looking at the wrong keyword list
> > --- ON already is reserved. The problem is exactly that it can't
> > tell whether CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY ON ... means to default the
> > index name or to create an index named CONCURRENTLY. So really the
> > *only* way to fix this is to make CONCURRENTLY be at least
> > type_func_name_keyword.
>
> +1 if it prevents indexes from being named "CONCURRENTLY".

Yeah, if you really want to have an index named like that you can use
double quotes. Seems a sensible compromise.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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