## Context
Setting isNullable on a field via the app SDK manifest was silently
ignored when re-syncing an existing field. The first sync that creates a
field honored isNullable correctly, but any later manifest change to
isNullable had no effect, neither on the field metadata nor on the
underlying Postgres column.
Two compounding gaps caused this:
The diff never detected the change. isNullable was configured with
toCompare: false, so compareTwoFlatEntity excluded it from the diff and
no update action was ever generated.
There was no DDL to apply it. Even if detected, the update field action
handler only altered name, options, defaultValue, and settings. The
column manager had no way to alter a column's NOT NULL constraint.
## Fix
- Set isNullable.toCompare: true so manifest changes are detected and
persisted to the field metadata (via the existing executeForMetadata
path).
- Add WorkspaceSchemaColumnManagerService.alterColumnNullable(): emits
SET NOT NULL / DROP NOT NULL, with an optional pre-serialized backfill
(UPDATE … WHERE col IS NULL) applied only on the nullable → non-nullable
transition.
- Add handleFieldNullableUpdate() to the update field action handler,
dispatched after the defaultValue block so the default is in place
before NOT NULL is enforced.
It is composite-aware (mirrors the per-sub-column parentIsNullable ||
!property.isRequired rule used at column creation) and skips
relation/morph join columns and TS_VECTOR, which are always nullable by
design.
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