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From: Kevin Kempter <cs_dba@consistentstate.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: dropping constraints
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:58:05 -0600
Message-ID: <201009012058.05142.cs_dba@consistentstate.com> (raw)

Hi All;

we have a few not null constraints we want to drop on very large tables. 
Unfortunately the drop's are taking hours. Is there a way to drop a not null 
constraint via the system catalogs?

Thanks in advance



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