Re: null values in non-nullable column

On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:52 , Tom Lane wrote:

> "George Pavlov" <gpavlov@mynewplace.com> writes:
>> -- this creates a table with a not-nullable column (datatype  
>> -- inherited from the original table) which contains nulls;
>
> Hm.  Arguably we should discard domain-ness in any SELECT result,
> but I'm sure some people would complain about that ...

Tom,

Could you expand on that a bit? Here's what I've interpreted:

The column types of the select are assumed to be (int,  
boolean_not_null), and so the values aren't checked again before the  
insert during CREATE TABLE AS. "discarding domain-ness" would mean  
considering the results as their base type, and rechecking the domain  
would be checked when inserting into the table.

Just trying to fit my head around this.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net