On 7/26/16 7:46 PM, Thomas Munro wrote: > By the way, our documentation says that NOT NULL constraints are > equivalent to CHECK (column_name IS NOT NULL). That is what the SQL > standard says, but in fact our NOT NULL constraints are equivalent to > CHECK (column_name IS DISTINCT FROM NULL). Should we update the > documentation with something like the attached?
Couldn't we just fix that instead? For NOT NULL constraints on composite type columns, create a full CHECK (column_name IS NOT NULL) constraint instead, foregoing the attnotnull optimization. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
