| From: | Gunnar R|nning <gunnar(at)candleweb(dot)no> | 
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| To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Syntax bug in create table - does not allow NULL | 
| Date: | 2000-01-21 13:05:09 | 
| Message-ID: | 200001211305.OAA24988@thor.candleweb.no | 
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Your name		:	Gunnar Rønning
Your email address	:	gunnar(at)candleweb(dot)no
System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)  	: Intel Pentium
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.2.12 ELF
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc version egcs-2.91.66
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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There seems to be a syntax bug in the create table statement that prevents
you from specifying the (redundant) NULL qualifier for a column. Here is my
example create table statement :
create table DOCUMENT
(
    DOCUMENTID      INTEGER not null,
    DOCUMENTTYPE    INTEGER NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (DOCUMENTID)
);
According to the documentation I should be able to specify NULL on the
DOCUMETTYPE column, but I get this error message from psql :
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "null"
FYI. I'm experimenting with using PowerDesigner to generate SQL for
PostgreSQL and I'm modifying a definition file for Oracle to work with
PostgreSQL. Do you know if this already has been done by somebody ?
Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 
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