Thread: adding defaults

Can field specific defaults easily be added to a table that is already in existence and has data in it?  I cannot seem to locate the correct ALTER command in any of my books.
Thanks
Jodi

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 17:34, Jodi Kanter wrote:
> Can field specific defaults easily be added to a table that is already
> in existence and has data in it?  I cannot seem to locate the correct
> ALTER command in any of my books.

ALTER TABLE table ALTER COLUMN column SET DEFAULT expression

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Jodi Kanter wrote:
> Can field specific defaults easily be added to a table that is
> already in existence and has data in it?  I cannot seem to locate the
> correct ALTER command in any of my books.

ALTER TABLE a ALTER COLUMN b SET DEFAULT c;

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Jodi Kanter wrote:

>Can field specific defaults easily be added to a table that is already
>in existence and has data in it?  I cannot seem to locate the correct
>ALTER command in any of my books.

$ psql -c "\h alter table" | grep -iC 1 default

ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] name [ * ]
    ALTER [ COLUMN ] column { SET DEFAULT expression | DROP DEFAULT }
...

/rls

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