At 14:33 3/04/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>I notice that pg_dump now dumps primary-key indexes in the style
>
>CREATE TABLE ... (
>       "dest_index" integer DEFAULT ...,
>       Constraint "dest_addresses_pkey" Primary Key ("dest_index")
>);
>
>Isn't this pretty darn stupid?

Yep.

>Previously, we created indexes after
>loading the data.  We're going to take a huge performance hit to do it
>this way.

My 7.0 dumps PK in table definitions as well, AFAICT (but it may have been
patched)  - can you check yours? 

The first time PK-in-table was implemented was in rev 1.124/5, but it may
have been taken out afterwards.

We really need ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT for PK.



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