Re: using index or check in ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Ildar Musin <i.musin@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2019-03-13T15:00:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:27 PM Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> wrote:
>> Agreed, in attached new version ...

> Committed with a little more nitpicking.

The buildfarm thinks additional nitpicking is needed.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Avoid using INFO elevel for what are fundamentally debug messages.

  2. Revert setting client_min_messages to 'debug1' in new tests.

  3. Allow ALTER TABLE .. SET NOT NULL to skip provably unnecessary scans.

  4. Improve predtest.c's internal docs, and enhance its functionality a bit.