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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tender Wang <tndrwang(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can't find not null constraint, but \d+ shows that
Date: 2024-04-10 17:23:25
Message-ID: 202404101723.4ag5z2mbgmsl@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2024-Apr-10, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> One thing missing here is pg_dump support. If you just dump this table,
> it'll end up with no constraint at all. That's obviously bad, so I
> propose we have pg_dump add a regular NOT NULL constraint for those, to
> avoid perpetuating the weird situation further.

Here's another crude patchset, this time including the pg_dump aspect.

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Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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v2-0001-Handle-ALTER-.-DROP-NOT-NULL-when-no-pg_constrain.patch text/x-diff 9.7 KB
v2-0002-support-this-in-pg_dump.patch text/x-diff 3.1 KB

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