[gdal-dev] Postgresql driver ability to add constraints

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Matthieu Rigal <rigal at rapideye.de> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was checking and I did not found a proper way for now to add a unique or not
> null constraints to columns of a layer created/edited by OGR.
>
> If I am wrong, please correct me.
> Else, as I saw that a big refactoring of the PgSQL/PostGIS is planned/done for
> the 1.8 version, this may be added, as it is quite widely used properties...

Matthieu,

Why not add such constraints via ExecuteSQL() after creating the layer?
I'm not keen on making constraints a first-class OGR data model concept
for a variety of reasons.

Best regards,
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