| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SET NULL / SET NOT NULL |
| Date: | 2002-03-22 21:24:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200203222124.g2MLOnc22684@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > "CREATE TABLE test (x int NULL)" doesn't look great either. :-) What
> > is that NULL doing there?
>
> Well, because NOT NULL *was* in the standard, and because one should be
> able to explicitly negate *that*. The alternative was
>
> CREATE TABLE test (x int NOT NOT NULL)
>
> :O
Yea, what I meant is that NULL doesn't look too clear in CREATE TABLE
either.
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