Re: ALTER TABLE ONLY .. DROP CONSTRAINT on partitioned tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hello,

On 2024-Sep-27, Amit Langote wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 2:52 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > While studying a review note from Jian He on not-null constraints, I
> > came across some behavior introduced by commit 9139aa19423b[1] that I
> > think is mistaken.

> Yeah, I don’t quite recall why I thought the behavior for both ADD and
> DROP had to be the same. I went back and reviewed the thread, trying
> to understand why DROP was included in the decision, but couldn’t find
> anything that explained it. It also doesn’t seem to be related to the
> pg_dump issue that was being discussed at the time.

Right.

> So, I think you might be right that the restriction on DROP is
> overkill, and we should consider removing it, at least in the master
> branch.

Thanks for looking!  I have pushed the removal now.

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