On 5/9/05, Jim C. Nasby <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:05:14AM +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> > CREATE TABLE foo (
> > foo int NOT NULL REFERENCES bar INDEX
> > );
> >
> > ... would be marvellous
>
> I agree that it would be handy. Another possibility is throwing a NOTICE
> or even WARNING if you create a foreign key that isn't covered by an
> index.
>
Good idea. WARNING might be going too far though. NOTICE sounds just
about right to me.
> > My apologies if this has been answered before, but a search of the
> > -general mailing list was not fruitful.
>
> FYI, often times new ideas are only discussed on -hackers, so you should
> search there as well.
Well, so far nobody's raised any objections.
Would it be worthwhile to repost this on -hackers? I did do a search
on the mailing list archives for that list as well, and didn't come up
with anything that bore directly on this discussion.
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