On lör, 2011-08-06 at 12:58 +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> Right now \d gives:
>
> Table "public.foo"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+---------+-----------
> a | integer | not null
> b | integer |
> c | integer |
> Check constraints:
> "foo_b_check" CHECK (b IS NOT NULL)
> "foo_c_check" CHECK (NOT c IS NULL)
>
> With this approach, one change would be that you'd gain an extra "not
> null" in the Modifiers column for "b".
>
> But how many CHECK constraints would show? I guess it would show 3,
> although it could be changed to just show 1. But it certainly couldn't
> continue to show 2, since nothing in the catalogs could distinguish
> the constraints on "a" from those on "b".
I'd say we would show all (what is currently known as) NOT NULL
constraints under "Check constraints:".