Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
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Msg-id ef4d9b38-b7a5-4c85-ba12-062929c2d136@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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On 27.06.24 02:34, David Rowley wrote:
> For the special timestamp stuff, that place is probably the special
> timestamp table in [1].  It looks like the large caution you added in
> 540849814 might not be enough or perhaps wasn't done soon enough to
> catch the people who read that part of the manual before the caution
> was added. Hard to fix if it's the latter without a time machine. :-(

Maybe we should really be thinking about deprecating these special 
values and steering users more urgently toward more robust alternatives.

Imagine if 'random' were a valid input value for numeric types.




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