Bug: timestamp without time zone column allows timestamptz default

Folks,

What happens now:

CREATE TABLE bar(id int DEFAULT 'a');
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "a"

Good so far. Now with a different data type.

CREATE TABLE bar(t TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
CREATE TABLE

This is a foot gun we need not have. TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE is
already a foot gun for the vast majority of real world cases. We
should not be making it worse by papering this over.

Ideally, this would look more like:

CREATE TABLE bar(t TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
ERROR: invalid input syntax for timestamp without time zone: current_timestamp
HINT: perhaps you meant to use timestamp with time zone.

Best,
David.
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