Re: Can't find not null constraint, but \d+ shows that

On 2024-Apr-10, jian he wrote:

> another related bug, in master.
>
> drop table if exists notnull_tbl1;
> CREATE TABLE notnull_tbl1 (c0 int not null, c1 int);
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ADD CONSTRAINT Q PRIMARY KEY(c0, c1);
> \d+ notnull_tbl1
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c0 DROP NOT NULL;
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c1 DROP NOT NULL;
>
> "ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c0 DROP NOT NULL;"
> should fail?

No, this should not fail, and it is working correctly in master. You
can drop the not-null constraint, but the column will still be
non-nullable, because the primary key still exists. If you drop the
primary key later, then the column becomes nullable. This is by design.

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