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From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Is it possible to speed up addition of "not null"?
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In response to Is it possible to speed up addition of "not null"?  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
Responses Re: Is it possible to speed up addition of "not null"?  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
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* hubert depesz lubaczewski:

> I tried with some indexes, but I can't get the time to something
> reasonable, so here is my question: is there any way I could make the
> "not null" constraint *fast*?

You coul patch pg_attribute directly.  I'm not sure if that's still safe
in current versions, though.

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