Re: New manual chapters

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New manual chapters
Date: 2002-08-06 02:56:37
Message-ID: 4595.1028602597@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> You say:
> "All drop commands in PostgreSQL support specifying CASCADE. Of course"
> Which isn't technically true for the ALTER TABLE/DROP NOT NULL statement..

Come to think of it, that's probably a bug: you should not be able to
DROP NOT NULL on a column that's part of a PRIMARY KEY. Unless you
cascade to remove the primary key, that is.

regards, tom lane

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