On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 13:55, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I'd go for the first of those, for sure. Testing attnotnull is > significantly cheaper than enforcing a generic constraint expression, > and NOT NULL is a sufficiently common case to be worth worrying about > optimizing it.
When I looked at doing this, I thought about just using check constraints just for the book keeping and leaving attnotnull as it is. If would be easier, but it seemed quite ugly. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers