Updating pg_attribute - Permission denied - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Trewern, Ben
Subject Updating pg_attribute - Permission denied
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Msg-id 996802F75C3CD411B424001083FA445B0594E5@CET_PONXX_FP001
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I was trying to update attnotnull = 't' in the pg_attribute to add Not Null
constraint to a table.  It gave me a Permission denied.

Is this standard? Am I not allowed to change system catalogues (I am using
the postgres superuser!)  I thought I had heard this would work.  Or can you
only change attnotnull to false i.e. remove a not null constraint?  I
suppose this would make some kind of sense, as there could already be Nulls
in the field.

Thanks in advance

Ben

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