Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jul 22 12:14:30 -0400 2011: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > >> I think that there probably ought to be a way to display the NOT NULL > >> constraint names (perhaps through \d+). For example, if you're > >> planning to support NOT VALID on top of this in the future, then there > >> needs to be a way to get the constraint's name to validate it. > > > > Absolutely true. Another thing that needs to be done here is to let the > > ALTER TABLE and ALTER DOMAIN commands use the constraint names; right > > now, they simply let you add the constraint but not specify the name. > > That should probably be revisited. > > That, at least, seems like something that should be fixed before commit.
Hmm, which point, Dean's or mine? Dean was saying that the name should be displayed by some flavor of \d; mine was that we need a command such as ALTER TABLE foo ALTER COLUMN bar SET NOT NULL name_of_notnull_constr where the last bit is what's new. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
