Re: VERY SMALL DOC BUG: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Janning Vygen <vygen(at)planwerk6(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VERY SMALL DOC BUG: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html
Date: 2002-09-03 18:59:34
Message-ID: 200209031859.g83IxYc11327@candle.pha.pa.us
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Looks like this is already fixed in 7.3, due out in a few months:

A not-null constraint is always written as a column constraint. A
not-null constraint is equivalent to creating a check constraint
<literal>CHECK (<replaceable>column_name</replaceable> IS NOT
NULL)</literal>, but in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>

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Janning Vygen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In document
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html
>
> it says (Parameters, third section):
>
> NOT NULL
> The column is not allowed to contain NULL values. This is
> equivalent to the column constraint CHECK (column NOT NULL).
>
> At the end it must say:
>
> CHECK (column IS NOT NULL).
> ^^
>
> thanks for maintaining/developing postgresql!! Great database!
>
> kind regards,
> janning
>
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