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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE LIKE, regarding constraints
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:42:12 +0100
Message-ID: <CABUevExTjCDGhskyXid+6pHSoatUO2u0L7zJ-jAJf43WaLMmtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 22:27,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createtable.html
> == == == == ==
> LIKE parent_table [ like_option ... ]
> . . .
> Not-null constraints are always copied to the new table.
> CHECK constraints will only be copied if INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS is specified; other types of constraints will never be copied.
> . . .
> == == == == ==
>
> But I do see PK and UNIQUE constraints
>  CONSTRAINT blah_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id),
>  CONSTRAINT blah_host_id_key UNIQUE (host_id)
> in the def of the new table.

Can you provide the commands you ran to make that happen? It doesn't
happen for me in a trivial test.


> Also, why is there no discussion of what "EXCLUDING CONSTRAINTS" will result in ?



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