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From: Neil Anderson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The example for creating a check constraint is missing a comma
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:55:08 -0500
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On 2018-02-15 1:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <[email protected]> writes:
>> See the example from the documentation for CREATE TABLE below. There should
>> be a comma before the CONSTRAINT keyword.
> 
>> CREATE TABLE distributors (
>>      did     integer,
>>      name    varchar(40)
>>      CONSTRAINT con1 CHECK (did > 100 AND name <> '')
>> );
> 
> Hmm ... that example is legal syntax as-is, but considering that the
> explanation for it says specifically that it's table-constraint syntax
> not column-constraint syntax, I think you're right.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> 

Oh yeah! You're right, strictly speaking it does work. I guess I read it 
as a table constraint because it's on the next line.


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Neil Anderson
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