Re: cataloguing NOT NULL constraints

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

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

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2023-04-07T22:26:28Z

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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

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2023-04-07 17:46:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> After quickly eyeing the diffs, I'm just going to take the new output
>> as good.  I'm not surprised that there are additional output messages
>> given the additional catalog entries this made.  I *am* a bit surprised
>> that some messages seem to have disappeared --- are there places where
>> this resulted in fewer catalog accesses than before?  Nonetheless,
>> there's no good reason to assume this test is exposing any bugs.

> I wonder if the issue is that the new paths miss a hook invocation.

Perhaps.  I'm content to silence the buildfarm for today; we can
investigate more closely later.

			regards, tom lane