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From: Fabien COELHO <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Wieck <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "ALSO" keyword to "CREATE RULE" patch
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:13:19 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


> I thought the syntax came from Berkeley.  We can add ALSO if folks like
> it.  I can't think of cases where we have keywords for both on and off
> behavior, and allow a default if the keyword is missing.

ALTER TABLE ... DROP CONSTRAINT ... [ RESTRICT | CASCADE ] ;

CREATE TABLE ... [ WITH OIDS | WITHOUT OIDS ] ... ;

CREATE USER ... [ CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB ] ... ;

IMHO, from the language design point of view, it seems better if all
options have a name.

-- 
Fabien Coelho - [email protected]

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