On 2024-Mar-14, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Perhaps it would make sense if we change the ALTER TABLE command to be like
>
> ALTER TABLE t1 ADD IF NOT EXISTS NOT NULL c1
>
> Then the behavior is like one would expect.
>
> For ALTER TABLE, we would reject this command if IF NOT EXISTS is not
> specified. (Since this is mainly for pg_dump, it doesn't really matter for
> usability.) For ALTER DOMAIN, we could accept both variants.
I don't understand why you want to change this behavior, though.
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