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Syntax bug in create table - does not allow NULL

Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no> — 2000-01-21T13:05:09Z

Your name		:	Gunnar Rønning
Your email address	:	gunnar@candleweb.no


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)  	: Intel Pentium

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) 	: Linux 2.2.12 ELF

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3):   PostgreSQL-6.5.3 

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)		: gcc version egcs-2.91.66


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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There seems to be a syntax bug in the create table statement that prevents
you from specifying the (redundant) NULL qualifier for a column. Here is my
example create table statement :

create table DOCUMENT
(
    DOCUMENTID      INTEGER not null,
    DOCUMENTTYPE    INTEGER NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (DOCUMENTID)
);

According to the documentation I should be able to specify NULL on the
DOCUMETTYPE column, but I get this error message from psql :

ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "null"


FYI. I'm experimenting with using PowerDesigner to generate SQL for
PostgreSQL and I'm modifying a definition file for Oracle to work with
PostgreSQL. Do you know if this already has been done by somebody ?

Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 
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