Re: Support NOT VALID / VALIDATE constraint options for named NOT NULL constraints

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

>
> Recursion to child tables is incorrectly trying to locate the constraint
> by name:
>
> create table notnull_tbl1 (a int);
> alter table notnull_tbl1 add constraint foo not null a not valid;
> create table notnull_chld (a int);
> alter table notnull_chld add constraint blah not null a not valid;
> alter table notnull_chld inherit notnull_tbl1 ;
>
> -- this fails but shouldn't:
> alter table notnull_tbl1 validate constraint foo;
> ERROR:  constraint "foo" of relation "notnull_chld" does not exist
>
> The end result here should be that the constraint `blah` in table
> notnull_chld is marked as validated.
>

Yes, I agree.  Here we need a separate Queue for NotNull constraint
validation,
which fetches the respective Non-Validate-Not-Null constraint name from
the child table

I am working on the patch and will post the update patch soon.


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>


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