Le mer. 29 nov. 2023 à 16:24, Euler Taveira <eu...@eulerto.com> a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, at 12:05 PM, PG Doc comments form wrote: > > It is not clear to me that foreign keys are copied or not when duplicating > a > table using CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... INCLUDING ALL. I had to actually > test > to check what it does. > > > It is impractical to add what a feature *does not* provide in general. The > probability that that information will be obsolete (due to new features) > is > high. If the information is missing that's because it is not supported. > (Of > course, it can be an omission and, in this case, we need to fix it.) > "INCLUDING ALL" leads people to believe *everything* is copied. The fact that it doesn't seem counter intuitive, at least to me. Therefore, it doesn't seem absurd to me to warn people about what is not copied. I wrote the original message hoping to help improve the documentation. I could write a draft if I'm allowed to. I do believe that clarifying this point improves the documentation. If there's a consensus that it doesn't, my apologies for the annoyance. Cheers.
