From: | Jeff Daugherty <jdaugherty(at)greatbridge(dot)com> |
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To: | Gregory Wood <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT |
Date: | 2001-05-11 19:29:12 |
Message-ID: | 3AFC3D88.9050007@greatbridge.com |
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>> Also, I see that alter table add constraint does not work for defaults.
>>
>> Is this something that is going to be added?
>
> That I do hope will be added since the only way to replicate the
> functionality is to drop, readd and repopulate a table.
>
> Greg
I am not sure specifically what you are looking for but you can add a
default value to a column in an ALTER TABLE statement:
ALTER TABLE two ALTER COLUMN col_b SET DEFAULT 1;
Beyond that you can use another ALTER statement to add a Foreign Key
constraint to the column:
ALTER TABLE two ADD CONSTRAINT two_fk foreign key(col_b) REFERENCES
tbl_one(col_a) match full;
The biggest thing that I have noticed is many things require you to use
separate ALTER statements in order for them to work.
I hope this helps.
jeff
Jeff Daugherty
Database Systems Engineer
Great Bridge, LLC
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