lack of consequence with domains and types

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: lack of consequence with domains and types
Date: 2008-12-22 12:49:49
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0812220449s8c60738p9327891c0c60318c@mail.gmail.com
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so, consider this one:

create sequence seq1;

create domain foo1 as bigint default nextval('seq1') not null;
create domain foo2 as timestamp without time zone default now() not null;
create type footype as
(
a foo1,
b foo2
) ;

create table bar(a bigint not null, b varchar(20));
insert into bar(a) select generate_series(1,100);
alter table bar add column blah footype not null;

ERROR: column "blah" contains null values

:/

I was expecting domains to kick in with their default values again. I
presume this is somehow similar to problem with enums I raised before.

Obviously I can work around that thing with:

create sequence seq1;

create type footype as
(
a bigint,
b timestamp without time zone
);

create table bar(a bigint not null, b varchar(20));
insert into bar(a) select generate_series(1,100);

alter table bar add column blah footype not null default (
nextval('seq1'), now()) ;

but that defeats whole purpose of domains, doesn't it ?

well, on top of that - I could create another domain with default
(nextval, now), but still....
The feature of domains and types is really great, but I see a lack of
consequence here. It would be great to see that fixed in future
versions of pg.

Thanks :)

--
GJ

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