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[doc] NOT NULL in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS is not mentioned in the doc #3360
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Yeah I agree with that. I would consider it as a glitch in the doc to be improved. |
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[BUG] NOT NULL in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS is not mentioned in the doc
Jul 16, 2024
NOT NULL in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS
is not supported for Delta tables
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[BUG] NOT NULL in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS is not mentioned in the doc
[doc] NOT NULL in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMNS is not mentioned in the doc
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@li-boxuan - thanks for creating this issue. Would you like to submit a pull request to update the language of the docs? |
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I understand this might be by design, but https://docs.delta.io/latest/delta-batch.html#add-columns could be made more clear. It currently says,
which gives me an impression that one can override the nullability, but I got
Also, note that due to #831, you cannot change an existing nullable column to non-nullable. This means the ONLY way to have a non-nullable column is to do so when creating the table.
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