Re: strange IS NULL behaviour

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2013-08-02T04:03:20Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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catalog-notnull.patch (text/x-diff) patch

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/4/13 5:06 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > FWIW if changing the behavior of NOT NULL constraints is desired, I
> > still have the patch to catalogue them around, if anyone wants to play
> > around.  I haven't gotten around to finishing it up, yet :-(
> 
> If your latest patch isn't publicly available, I'd like to see it.  I
> might work on that later this year.

Here it is.  Note that it is quite incomplete: there are parts that are
not even close to compiling.  I think I was trying to figure out how to
determine whether a column was of a composite type.

I might get back to it eventually, so if you start working on it, do let
me know.

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