Re: Is this a buggy behavior?

From: Thiemo Kellner <thiemo(at)gelassene-pferde(dot)biz>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is this a buggy behavior?
Date: 2024-03-24 14:59:46
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Am 24.03.2024 um 15:54 schrieb Erik Wienhold:
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> This is required by the SQL standard: columns of a primary key must be
> NOT NULL. Postgres automatically adds the missing NOT NULL constraints
> when defining a primary key. You can verify that with \d test1 in psql.

To me, this behaviour, while correct, is not too concise. I wished, that
PG issued a warning about a definition conflict. In PostgreSQL, a PK
must always be not nullable, so explicitly defining on of a PK's columns
as nullable is contradictory, one should get notified of.

The two dimes of Thiemo

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