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Schema: Unnamed constraints

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Most RDBMS are able to generate a constraint name if you're not specifying one explicitly:

CREATE TABLE actor (
  actor_id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY
);

CREATE TABLE film (
  film_id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY
);

CREATE TABLE film_actor (
  actor_id BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES actor,
  film_id BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES film,

  PRIMARY KEY (actor_id, film_id)
);

While this is correct, it makes evolving such a schema much harder. It is usually better to give an explicit name to each constraint, such that constraints can easily be dropped, deactivated temporarily, etc.:

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