Re: cataloguing NOT NULL constraints

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

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

To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>

Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Andrew Bille <andrewbille@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2024-05-01T17:49:35Z

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Revert structural changes to not-null constraints
- 6f8bb7c1e961 17.0 landed
Fix inconsistencies in error messages
- 21ac38f498b3 17.0 landed
Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints
- d45597f72fe5 17.0 landed
Disallow NO INHERIT not-null constraints on partitioned tables
- 13daa33fa5a6 17.0 landed
Better handle indirect constraint drops
- 0cd711271d42 17.0 cited
Don't try to assign smart names to constraints
- d72d32f52d26 17.0 cited
Fix restore of not-null constraints with inheritance
- d9f686a72ee9 17.0 landed
ATTACH PARTITION: Don't match a PK with a UNIQUE constraint
- cee8db3f680b 17.0 landed
Fix propagating attnotnull in multiple inheritance
- c3709100be73 17.0 landed
Check stack depth in new recursive functions
- b0f7dd915bca 17.0 landed
Move privilege check to the right place
- ac22a9545ca9 17.0 cited
Update information_schema definition for not-null constraints
- 3af721794272 17.0 landed
Fix not-null constraint test
- d0ec2ddbe088 17.0 landed
Disallow changing NO INHERIT status of a not-null constraint
- 9b581c534186 17.0 cited
Catalog not-null constraints
- b0e96f311985 17.0 cited
parallel_schedule: add comment on event_trigger test dependency
- c8e43c22be27 17.0 landed
Revert "Catalog NOT NULL constraints" and fallout
- 9ce04b50e120 16.0 landed
Adjust contrib/sepgsql regression test expected outputs.
- 76c111a7f166 16.0 landed
Fix table name clash in recently introduced test
- 728015a47016 16.0 landed
Catalog NOT NULL constraints
- e056c557aef4 16.0 landed
Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same
- cd902b331dc4 8.4.0 cited

Attachments

0001-Disallow-direct-change-of-NO-INHERIT-of-not-null-con.patch (text/x-diff)

On 2024-Apr-25, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Also, I've found a weird behaviour with a non-inherited NOT NULL
> > constraint for a partitioned table:
> > CREATE TABLE pt(a int NOT NULL NO INHERIT) PARTITION BY LIST (a);

> Ugh.  Maybe a way to handle this is to disallow NO INHERIT in
> constraints on partitioned tables altogether.  I mean, they are a
> completely useless gimmick, aren't they?

Here are two patches that I intend to push soon (hopefully tomorrow).

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