Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com> writes:
> However, heap_getattr still won't see the default since it simply
> checks to see of the attribute number falls off the end of the
> tuple and then returns null.
Right.
> There's no provision for then pulling out the default value and
> returning it instead.
Would it even be possible to do that? I'm not sure that heap_getattr
has any way to find the default. It only has a TupleDesc, not a
reference to the relation itself...
regards, tom lane
