Re: alter table question for 7.2 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: alter table question for 7.2
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Msg-id 20090324175456.GA32674@tux
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In response to alter table question for 7.2  (Matthias Leopold <matthias@aic.at>)
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Matthias Leopold <matthias@aic.at> wrote:

> hi,
>
> can anyone tell me the right way to do something like
>
> alter table foo add column bar int not null default '0';
>
> in a postgresql 7.2 database?

Update now!

IIRC, first add the column and then use ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT.
Try that, i'm not sure, 7.2 is too old.


Andreas
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