Re: Current initdb broken. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Current initdb broken.
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0006102146400.9195-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Current initdb broken.  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Current initdb broken.  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> Well one solution is to have 7.1 use CREATE USER commands, then add the
> pg_shadow columns in 7.2.

That's the plan.

> If we re-order the new columns to be at the end, those columns will load
> in with NULL's.
> 
> We could then modify the user code to make default for NULL values in
> the new columns.

I'm not sure, that would break the basic line of error checking in COPY.


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