Re: using index or check in ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ildar Musin <i(dot)musin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: using index or check in ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL
Date: 2019-05-03 23:06:46
Message-ID: CAKJS1f-Y2CAV7y_Vay_bmE=oyZPgtm2qXRinozYOJ0SeopjYtw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 14:22, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 13:08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Not a blocker perhaps, but it's better if we can get new behavior to
> > be more or less right the first time.
>
> It's not really new behaviour though. The code in question is for
> ATTACH PARTITION and was added in c31e9d4bafd (back in 2017).
> bbb96c3704c is the commit for using constraints to speed up SET NOT
> NULL. The mention of using the constraint for proof was made DEBUG1 in
> the initial commit. What we need to decide is if we want to make
> ATTACH PARTITION's INFO message a DEBUG1 in pg12 or not.

FWIW, I'm in favour of changing ATTACH PARTITION's INFO messages to
DEBUG1 for PG12 to align it to what bbb96c3704c did.

Anyone else?

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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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