On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, James Coleman <
jtc331@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
It's possible I'm the only one who's been in this situation, but I've
multiple times found myself explaining to a user how column DEFAULT
expressions work: namely how the quoting on an expression following
the keyword DEFAULT controls whether or not the expression is
evaluated at the time of the DDL statement or at the time of an
insertion.
I don’t know if it’s worth documenting but the following sentence is implied by the syntax:
“Do not single quote the expression as a whole. Write the expression as you would in a select query.”
David J.
