Re: alter + preserving dependencies

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter + preserving dependencies
Date: 2008-05-07 05:52:10
Message-ID: 1021.1210139530@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> Could we consider ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT ...;?

We could if we hadn't already done it five or so years ago.
Or am I missing what you need here?

> Bonus question: why is the rewriter unable to distinguish whether NULL
> comes from the user or comes from the column was not part of the user
> query?

Not following this either ...

regards, tom lane

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