Re: Default column value [ANSWERED]

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default column value [ANSWERED]
Date: 2016-12-30 21:46:48
Message-ID: 44075a8f-762a-6294-cb57-9331f6cc0fce@aklaver.com
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On 12/30/2016 08:51 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
>> "The CHECK clause specifies an expression producing a Boolean result
>> which
>> new or updated rows must satisfy for an insert or update operation to
>> succeed. Expressions evaluating to TRUE or UNKNOWN succeed."
>>
>> NULL == "UNKNOWN"
>
> David,
>
> I forgot about that. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

What it comes down to is if you do not want NULL values in a column then
specify NOT NULL on the column.

>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>

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