Re: BUG #5839: pgAdmin makes bad query for creating a table when default value specified - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Aren Cambre
Subject Re: BUG #5839: pgAdmin makes bad query for creating a table when default value specified
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Msg-id AANLkTi=wqk1CgB-tqeSb1oMzpa26y8nRj_ySbNMKf7+c@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #5839: pgAdmin makes bad query for creating a table when default value specified  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #5839: pgAdmin makes bad query for creating a table when default value specified  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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This came from pgAdmin's *Default value* field. This field is supposed to
accept anything other than a string?

Aren

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Aren Cambre" <aren@arencambre.com> writes:
> > Using pgAdmin 1.12.2, I just tried to create a table with a character
> > varying(18) column. I put "none" (without the quotes) in the "Default
> value"
> > field for that column.
>
> > When I press OK to create the table, I get a dialog saying:
> >   An error has occurred:
> >   ERROR: column "none" does not exist
>
> Well, yeah, that's what you'll get.  I don't see a bug here.
> If you want the literal string 'none' as default, you should put quotes
> around it.  If you don't want a default, you shouldn't put anything
> there.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

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