Re: backwards-compat problem?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: backwards-compat problem?
Date: 2003-08-19 03:26:20
Message-ID: 04ba01c36601$a98015d0$2800a8c0@mars
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> > You know how DEFAULT 'now' no longer works? Well, I have some old
tables
> > that still have stuff like DEFAULT 'now' and DEFAULT 'today' in them and
> > they will be dumped with pg_dump using that default. Does that mean
that
> > mean that when I reload into 7.4, my defaults will no longer work?
>
> You can do the ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT now, or after you load into 7.4,
> but you'll have to fix it sooner or later.

Can we ensue that this is listed in the release notes clearly then?

Chris

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