On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> You know, I've never really understood the difference between these >> two types of things, or why we need to support both. Which may be >> just because I'm slow? > > Unique constraints are defined by the SQL standard, and have a syntax > that can't support a lot of the extensions that CREATE INDEX allows. > There's also restrictions in the information_schema views. > So unifying the two concepts completely would be a mess.
I thought it might be something like that. Josh - you may want to add your patch here: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
