Re: BUG #5477: CREATE DOMAIN NOT NULL constraints not always enforced for INSERT with subquery - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: BUG #5477: CREATE DOMAIN NOT NULL constraints not always enforced for INSERT with subquery
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Msg-id 4C00DBC10200002500031BE8@gw.wicourts.gov
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Responses Re: BUG #5477: CREATE DOMAIN NOT NULL constraints not always enforced for INSERT with subquery  (Matthew Nourse <matthew@nplus1.com.au>)
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Tom Lane  wrote:

< NOT NULL constraints at the domain level suck. Don't use 'em.

+1

As someone who uses domains very heavily, I can attest that the
semantics of that are very weak.  Whether a domain is nullable
depends almost entirely on the context of its use, which you can't
(and shouldn't try to) anticipate on its declaration.

-Kevin

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