From e1b8a55ec8cc9d77581ad144122f7f7163d82282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:02:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove caveat about avoiding cross-type operators in
constraints intended for use with constraint exclusion. We can prove those
cases now...
---
doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 25 +------------------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index dee6bc70340..6dd740fbfee 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml,v 1.69 2006/11/28 01:09:01 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml,v 1.70 2006/12/28 20:02:38 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="ddl">
<title>Data Definition</title>
@@ -2784,29 +2784,6 @@ EXPLAIN SELECT count(*) FROM measurement WHERE logdate >= DATE '2006-01-01';
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Avoid cross-data type comparisons in the <literal>CHECK</>
- constraints, as the planner will currently fail to prove such
- conditions false. For example, the following constraint
- will work if <varname>x</varname> is an <type>integer</type>
- column, but not if <varname>x</varname> is a
- <type>bigint</type>:
-<programlisting>
-CHECK ( x = 1 )
-</programlisting>
- For a <type>bigint</type> column we must use a constraint like:
-<programlisting>
-CHECK ( x = 1::bigint )
-</programlisting>
- The problem is not limited to the <type>bigint</type> data type
- — it can occur whenever the default data type of the
- constant does not match the data type of the column to which it
- is being compared. Cross-data type comparisons in the supplied
- queries are usually OK, just not in the <literal>CHECK</> conditions.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
All constraints on all partitions of the master table are considered for
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