On Friday 24 September 2010 8:05:43 am Chris Barnes wrote: > I am confused with what this is telling me. > I have a table and I am trying to add a new column with constraint not > null. > > > What am I missing? > Chris > > > pgdb001=> alter table schema.table add COLUMN column_name integer not null; > ERROR: column "column_name" contains null values The error message :) The column has NULLs in it so you can not make it NOT NULL until you get rid of them. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
