Re: removing a restriction

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net>
Cc: General PostgreSQL List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: removing a restriction
Date: 2007-05-31 01:34:18
Message-ID: 465E261A.3050209@commandprompt.com
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Tom Allison wrote:
> alter TABLE user_history ALTER COLUMN seen_as set not null;
>
> turns it on...
> I want to turn it off....

DROP NOT NULL;

>
> On May 30, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>> Tom Allison wrote:
>>> I have a column that was created with a 'not null' restriction.
>>> How do I remove it?
>>
>> alter table set
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