[HACKERS] Bug: timestamp without time zone column allows timestamptz default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Folks,

What happens now:
   CREATE TABLE bar(id int DEFAULT 'a');   ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "a"

Good so far.  Now with a different data type.
   CREATE TABLE bar(t TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);   CREATE TABLE

This is a foot gun we need not have.  TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE is
already a foot gun for the vast majority of real world cases.  We
should not be making it worse by papering this over.

Ideally, this would look more like:
   CREATE TABLE bar(t TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);   ERROR:  invalid input syntax for
timestampwithout time zone: current_timestamp   HINT: perhaps you meant to use timestamp with time zone.
 

Best,
David.
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