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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: Tender Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can't find not null constraint, but \d+ shows that
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:01:52 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACJufxEfc0obH8Aw2AExudy1g5s08e1aFgEJ_KbeZw0NhYeSOw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2024-Apr-10, jian he wrote:

> another related bug, in master.
> 
> drop table if exists notnull_tbl1;
> CREATE TABLE notnull_tbl1 (c0 int not null, c1 int);
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ADD CONSTRAINT Q PRIMARY KEY(c0, c1);
> \d+ notnull_tbl1
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c0 DROP NOT NULL;
> ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c1 DROP NOT NULL;
> 
> "ALTER TABLE notnull_tbl1 ALTER c0 DROP NOT NULL;"
> should fail?

No, this should not fail, and it is working correctly in master.  You
can drop the not-null constraint, but the column will still be
non-nullable, because the primary key still exists.  If you drop the
primary key later, then the column becomes nullable.  This is by design.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke)

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