RE: Removing all NOT NULL constraints from multiple tabl es easily

Or, do

 pg_dump -s -t tablename 

will output the schema for tablename

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sokel, John [SMTP:jsokel@mdsi-usa.com]
> Sent:	Monday, September 11, 2000 8:04 AM
> To:	pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Cc:	Dan Browning
> Subject:	RE: [NOVICE] Removing all NOT NULL constraints from multiple
> tabl es easily
> 
> If you do a pg_dump on the db, the first part of the data will be the
> create script.  Just pull that part of the file off and alter it.
>  
> John
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Browning [mailto:danb@cyclonecomputers.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:58 AM
> To: 'Sokel, John'; pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Removing all NOT NULL constraints from multiple
> tables easily
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a program (or psql command?) that will analyze a table
> and generate a CREATE TABLE ... statement?  I ask because I don't have the
> create table statements handy, and it would take a while for me to
> recreate them (plus spelling errors, etc.)
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Sokel, John [mailto:jsokel@mdsi-usa.com]
> 	Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 6:57 AM
> 	To: Dan Browning
> 	Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Removing all NOT NULL constraints from
> multiple tables easily
> 	
> 	
> 
> 	I don't think you can alter that on the fly, but an easier way is
> too just use 'select into' a temporrary table, recreate, and insert the
> data back to the original file.  That's what I always do, usually pretty
> quick (unless you have gobs of data).
> 
> 	** Create a temporrary table 
> 	Select * into <temp_table> from <orig_table>; 
> 
> 	** Recreate the file 
> 	Drop table <orig_table>; 
> 	Create table <orig_table> ...; 
> 
> 	** Put the data back in 
> 	Insert into <orig_table> select * from <temp_table>; 
> 
> 	** Clean up 
> 	Drop table <temp_table>; 
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: Dan Browning [ <mailto:danb@cyclonecomputers.com>] 
> 	Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:32 AM 
> 	To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-novice@postgresql.org 
> 	Subject: [NOVICE] Removing all NOT NULL constraints from multiple
> tables 
> 	easily 
> 
> 
> 	I would like to remove all NOT NULL constraints from my tables. 
> 
> 	I've tried ALTER TABLE, but I can't seem to get the syntax right,
> and the 
> 	docs aren't clear to me. 
> 	What is the correct syntax?  If there's another way, short of
> manually 
> 	recreating (dump, create, import) the tables, I'd love to hear it. 
> 
> 	Thanks, 
> 
> 	Dan Browning 
> 	Network & Database Administrator 
> 	Cyclone Computer Systems 
>