Re: ADD/DROP INHERITS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: ADD/DROP INHERITS
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Msg-id 20060608210312.GZ45331@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: ADD/DROP INHERITS  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:44:10PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net> writes:
> 
> > for example - to be consistent, one should also make "ALTER TABLE ALTER
> > COLUMN col SET DEFAULT x" change each "default" value, no ? 
> 
> er, I think that is in fact a no.

Yeah... once a default value is stored, there's no way to tell it was
stored because of the default clause; nor should there be.
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