Re: cataloguing NOT NULL constraints

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-07-26T14:06:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Revert structural changes to not-null constraints

  2. Fix inconsistencies in error messages

  3. Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints

  4. Disallow NO INHERIT not-null constraints on partitioned tables

  5. Better handle indirect constraint drops

  6. Don't try to assign smart names to constraints

  7. Fix restore of not-null constraints with inheritance

  8. ATTACH PARTITION: Don't match a PK with a UNIQUE constraint

  9. Fix propagating attnotnull in multiple inheritance

  10. Check stack depth in new recursive functions

  11. Move privilege check to the right place

  12. Update information_schema definition for not-null constraints

  13. Fix not-null constraint test

  14. Disallow changing NO INHERIT status of a not-null constraint

  15. Catalog not-null constraints

  16. parallel_schedule: add comment on event_trigger test dependency

  17. Revert "Catalog NOT NULL constraints" and fallout

  18. Adjust contrib/sepgsql regression test expected outputs.

  19. Fix table name clash in recently introduced test

  20. Catalog NOT NULL constraints

  21. Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same

On 2023-Jul-26, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2023-Jul-26, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> 
> > The new \d+ output certainly makes testing and reviewing easier,
> > though I do understand people's concerns that this may make the output
> > significantly longer in many real-world cases.
> 
> Yeah, at this point I'm inclined to get the \d+ version committed
> immediately after the main patch, and we can tweak the psql UI after the
> fact -- for instance so that they are only shown in \d++, or some other
> idea we may come across.

(For example, maybe we could add \dtc [PATTERN] or some such, that lists
all the constraints of all kinds in tables matching PATTERN.)

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