Re: Support NOT VALID / VALIDATE constraint options for named NOT NULL constraints

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Support NOT VALID / VALIDATE constraint options for named NOT NULL constraints
Date: 2025-04-03 15:03:34
Message-ID: f88ddb82-1d6d-459d-8b9f-e75f07977ec3@eisentraut.org
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On 03.04.25 10:07, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The new flag is there for quick access by get_relation_info. We could
> easily not have it otherwise, because clients don't need it, but its
> lack would probably make planning measurably slower because it'd have to
> do syscache access for every single not-null constraint to figure out if
> it's valid or not.

In the v6 patch, you are adding a attnullability field to the
CompactAttribute in the tuple descriptor and use that in
get_relation_info(). That seems like the right approach, because then
you're doing all that preprocessing about which constraint is active in
the relcache. So I don't see where the extra pg_attribute field
attnotnullvalid is getting used.

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