At 19:50 14/05/01 -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
>If it's $2 in the parent,
>but the child already has a $2 defined, what should be done?  The
>reason this affects drop constraint is knowing what to drop in the
>child.  If you drop $2 on the parent, what constraint(s) on the child
>get dropped?

AFAIK, it is not possible to derive this. pg_dump makes the assumption that
if the constraint source is the same, and both names start with '$', then
it is inherited.


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Tue, 15 May 2001 13:26:55 +1000
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
RE: Updating system catalogs after a tuple deletion 