Re: SET NULL / SET NOT NULL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: SET NULL / SET NOT NULL
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Msg-id 200203222124.g2MLOnc22684@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: SET NULL / SET NOT NULL  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > "CREATE TABLE test (x int NULL)" doesn't look great either.  :-)  What
> > is that NULL doing there?
> 
> Well, because NOT NULL *was* in the standard, and because one should be
> able to explicitly negate *that*. The alternative was
> 
>   CREATE TABLE test (x int NOT NOT NULL)
> 
> :O

Yea, what I meant is that NULL doesn't look too clear in CREATE TABLE
either.

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