Re: Data integrity and sanity check
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
Cc: Ferruccio Zamuner <nonsolosoft@diff.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-03-31T05:31:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> BTW. There are good reasons sometimes for having data that violates > current constraints. The top of a tree may have a static record with > a null parent. The NOT NULL constraint added after this entry (via > alter table add constraint) should not affect the static record, so > unless you know your data quite well this type of tool wouldn't be > particularly useful anyway. As far as I am aware, there is no alter table add constraint syntax for NOT NULLs atm. I've submitted a patch that allows alter table/alter column set/drop not null though. Chris