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