Re: New manual chapters - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: New manual chapters
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Msg-id 5532.1028606059@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: New manual chapters  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> Come to think of it, that's probably a bug: you should not be able to
>> DROP NOT NULL on a column that's part of a PRIMARY KEY.  Unless you
>> cascade to remove the primary key, that is.

> I did ask you about this before, Tom :)

> The DROP NOT NULL code I submitted will not allow you to drop a not null on
> a column that participates in a primary key.  I was very careful about that.

Duh, so you were.

> So basically, it's a restrict-only implementation.  Although it would be
> fairly easy I guess to make it support cascade and restrict keywords...?
> Perhaps not thru the dependency mechanism, but it can be done explicitly.

Yeah, I doubt it's worth trying to force NOT NULL into the dependency
mechanism for this.  Do you feel like trying to do it "by hand"?  It
doesn't seem like a very important issue to me.
        regards, tom lane


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