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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Childs <Blue.Dragon@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: ADD FOREIGN KEY (was Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:10:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200310090210.h992A7X27225@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F84C252.6040708@familyhealth.com.au>

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> 
> >>Well, with the CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER you _can_, but we already have 
> >>a consensus that we don't _want_ that. Probably we should declare it 
> >>deprecated and remove it in 7.5. And the option currently under 
> >>discussion is exactly what will cause ALTER TABLE to let you, but IMHO 
> >>that _should_ be restricted.
> 
> How can we ever remove it - what about people upgrading from 7.0, 7.1, 
> 7.2?  Also, people upgrading from 7.3 who've never heard of adddepend...

Not sure.  We can remove documentation about it, at least.

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