| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Help with ADD COLUMN |
| Date: | 2002-11-24 06:34:22 |
| Message-ID: | 5.1.0.14.0.20021124173319.02c9c938@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 03:48 PM 23/11/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>I assume that's the correct behaviour? If they specify a default, the
>column should be auto-filled with that default, right?
Good question. We might want some input from other DBs; Dec RDB default
existing rows to NULL irrespective of the 'DEFAULT' clause.
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