Hello,

While discussing the matter of multiple constraints with Vik Fearing, I
noticed that we were throwing an unnecessary error if you used

CREATE TABLE foo (a int NOT NULL NOT NULL);

That would die with "redundant NOT NULL declarations", but current
master doesn't do that; and we don't do it for UNIQUE UNIQUE either.
So I modified the patch to make it ignore the dupe and create a single
constraint.  This (and rebasing to current master) are the only changes
in v15.

I have not changed the psql presentation, but I'll do as soon as we have
rough consensus on what to do.  To reiterate, the options are:

1. Don't show the constraint names.  This is what the current patch does

2. Show the constraint name in \d+ in the "nullable" column.
   I did this early on, to much booing.

3. Show the constraint name in \d++ (a new command) tabular output

4. Show the constraint name in the footer of \d+
   I also did this at some point; there are some +1s and some -1s.

5. Show the constraint name in the footer of \d++


Many thanks, Dean, for the discussion so far.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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