Re: Help with ADD COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: Help with ADD COLUMN
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Msg-id 5.1.0.14.0.20021124173319.02c9c938@mail.rhyme.com.au
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In response to Help with ADD COLUMN  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: Help with ADD COLUMN  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Re: Help with ADD COLUMN  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 03:48 PM 23/11/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>I assume that's the correct behaviour?  If they specify a default, the
>column should be auto-filled with that default, right?

Good question. We might want some input from other DBs; Dec RDB default 
existing rows to NULL irrespective of the 'DEFAULT' clause.



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