Re: not null constraints, again

jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>

From: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
To: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-09T08:31:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 6:33 PM Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The attached patch adds  List *nnconstraints, which store the not-null definition, in struct CreateStmt.
> This makes me a little confused about List *constraints in struct CreateStmt. Actually, the List constraints
> store ckeck constraint, and it will be better if the comments can reflect that. Re-naming it to List *ckconstraints
> seems more reasonable. But a lot of codes that use stmt->constraints will be changed.
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hi.
seems you forgot to attach the patch?
I also noticed this minor issue.
I have no preference for Renaming it to List *ckconstraints.
+1 for better comments. maybe reword to
>>>
List       *constraints;    /* CHECK constraints (list of Constraint nodes) */
>>>



On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 3:17 PM Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The test case in constraints.sql, as below:
> CREATE TABLE notnull_tbl1 (a INTEGER NOT NULL NOT NULL);
>                                                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
> There are two not-null definitions, and is the second one redundant?
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hi.
i think this is ok. please see
function transformColumnDefinition and variable saw_nullable.

we need to make sure this:
CREATE TABLE notnull_tbl3 (a INTEGER  NULL NOT NULL);
fails.


of course, it's also OK do this:
CREATE TABLE notnull_tbl3 (a INTEGER  NULL NULL);



Commits

  1. Suppress "may be used uninitialized" warnings from older compilers.

  2. Elide not-null constraint checks on child tables during PK creation

  3. Remove unnecessary code to handle CONSTR_NOTNULL

  4. Silence compilers about extractNotNullColumn()

  5. Add pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints