Re: Is this a buggy behavior? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Is this a buggy behavior?
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Msg-id bf315eb3-893a-4bb4-8e4d-bb14afb29d23@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Re: Is this a buggy behavior?  (Thiemo Kellner <thiemo@gelassene-pferde.biz>)
Responses Re: Is this a buggy behavior?  (Thiemo Kellner <thiemo@gelassene-pferde.biz>)
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Am 24.03.24 um 16:28 schrieb Thiemo Kellner:
>
> Am 24.03.2024 um 16:17 schrieb Tom Lane:
>
>> To do that, we'd have to remember that you'd said NULL, which we
>> don't: the word is just discarded as a noise clause. Considering
>> that this usage of NULL isn't even permitted by the SQL standard,
>> that seems like a bit too much work.
>
> If I understood correctly, only the NOT NULL expression gets 
> remembered, but the NULL gets discarded. No, I do not quite get it. 
> Somehow, it has to be decided whether to create a "check constraint" 
> or not, but this information is not available any more when creating 
> the primary key? Not even in some kind of intermediary catalogue?

the null-able constraint addition to a column is pointless because by 
default all columns are nullable. definition as a primary key adds the 
not null constraint.

Andreas

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