From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: creating index names automatically? |
Date: | 2009-12-23 20:15:14 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070912231215t373496afq416ae5a445c1ba09@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> If there were more than a single member of the class, I might think
>>> it was worth the trouble ...
>
>> A quick glace at the list shows relatively few that actually need to
>> be barred from columns. I could easily see people wanting to use
>> columns named LEFT and RIGHT or VERBOSE. I suppose they've been there
>> for a long time already though.
>
> Hm. I do not believe it'd work for LEFT/RIGHT because of join condition
> syntax, but it might for ANALYZE, FREEZE, and VERBOSE; which would
> actually amount to a pretty significant percentage of our
> totally-outside-any-spec reserved words.
>
> I'm still not really eager to introduce yet another category of
> keywords, but perhaps it is worth doing. Comments?
I'm about to get on a plane, but just to make you hurl here's another
half-assed approach.
...Robert
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