Re: cataloguing NOT NULL constraints

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:14:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I think that there probably ought to be a way to display the NOT NULL
> >> constraint names (perhaps through \d+). For example, if you're
> >> planning to support NOT VALID on top of this in the future, then there
> >> needs to be a way to get the constraint's name to validate it.
> >
> > Absolutely true.  Another thing that needs to be done here is to let the
> > ALTER TABLE and ALTER DOMAIN commands use the constraint names; right
> > now, they simply let you add the constraint but not specify the name.
> > That should probably be revisited.
>
> That, at least, seems like something that should be fixed before commit.

I have added a URL of this thread to the TODO list.

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