On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:49:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I put up a proposal in pgsql-hackers to change this behavior:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-07/msg00818.php
> If we made that change then the "wrong" way of defining the default
> would fail in an obvious fashion --- the 'now' would get reduced to a
> particular time immediately at CREATE TABLE. Doubtless this would annoy
> some people, but the "right" way of defining the default isn't really
> any harder, and it would save folks from getting burnt in corner cases,
> like you were.
>
> Any comments?
The proposed behavious promises to be "strict, simple and
well-defined". The current one definitely tends to have "dirty and
non-obvious side effects here and there". I think the new behaviour
should conquer. BTW, the documentation describes this proposed
behaviour (but why?), not the current one...
