Re: What's the canoninical way of dealing with a NOT NULL column?

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Ian McDonald-ONLINE wrote:
> I've solved my problem: I was trying to do an INSERT without giving a 
> value for a NOT NULL column.
>  
> I tried adding __PACKAGE__->constrain_column( PARENT => qr/\S/ ) for the 
> relevant column, but that didn't help. (I guess it doesn't check columns 
> for which no value is given.)
>  
> Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough, but I can't find an answer in the 
> documentation or the list archives.
>  

maybe you want to search documentation for "before_create" trigger :-)

barney