On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> The problem isn't confined to CREATE TABLE LIKE; it's a widespread >> design flaw that will likely take years of work to clean up >> completely. I don't think that's a reason not to commit your change >> though; it fixes a bug and is an incremental improvement, even if a >> small one. That having been said, if you're feeling an urge to tackle >> the problem more broadly, don't let me stand in your way... > > Not me; I'm just trying to close out a bug report. > > FWIW, I think your argument only barely supports this change at all, > because CREATE TABLE LIKE is still generating an IndexStmt which after > all is the representation of a CREATE INDEX command. We've overloaded > it to do a few other things, and now it will be able to do one more > thing, but this isn't moving things at all towards separating high- > and low-level operations.
:-( -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
