On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> The cost of preventing every stupid database use is too high.
>
> > Although a notice that says:
> > NOTICE: CREATE DUPLICATE INDEX y on test (col1);
> > Probably isn't out of order.
>
> You're omitting the (probably) several pages of C code that would be
> needed to detect whether the index is really a duplicate or not.
Bah, hmmm maybe a perl script in contrib :)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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