Re: Draft back-branch release notes are up

Zsolt Parragi <zsolt(dot)parragi(at)percona(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2026, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> The test query alone would have been fine, but without a
>> straightforward repair recipe, I'm not sure how useful it is. I don't
>> want to expend a large amount of note space on a problem that likely
>> affects very few people. Maybe we could stop at offering the ALTER
>> TABLE commands, and leave people to cope with finding any NULLs on
>> their own?

> Yes, I think even the test query could be enough, and then simply
> mentioning that the constraint has to be fixed or dropped.

OK, this is what I've got now:

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<para>
Disallow <literal>NOT NULL NO INHERIT</literal> constraints on
partitioned tables (David Rowley, Nitin Motiani)
<ulink url="&commit_baseurl;35f60e5ce">&sect;</ulink>
</para>

<para>
This was already rejected by plain <command>CREATE TABLE</command>,
but cases such as <command>CREATE TABLE LIKE</command> missed
checking copied constraints, potentially allowing a partition to
contain null values when it should not.
</para>

<para>
If you suspect this might have happened in your database, issue this
command to find broken constraints:
<programlisting>
SELECT conrelid::regclass, conname
FROM pg_constraint
WHERE contype = 'n' AND connoinherit
AND conrelid IN (SELECT oid FROM pg_class WHERE relkind = 'p');
</programlisting>
Unwanted constraints can be removed with <literal>ALTER TABLE
... DROP CONSTRAINT ...</literal>, while ones that are wanted should
be repaired with <literal>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT
... INHERIT</literal>. The latter command will fail if any null
values are present in the table's partitions.
</para>
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regards, tom lane