ADD COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Chris Bitmead
Subject ADD COLUMN
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Msg-id 373C1847.87F19DC5@bigfoot.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] CVS  (Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] ADD COLUMN  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Can somebody explain briefly what happens when you do an ALTER TABLE ADD
COLUMN? Obviously it doesn't seem to go through the database and update
every record with a new attribute there and then. Does it get updated
the next time the record is retrieved or what is the story there?

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