Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
Date: 2024-07-05 22:43:44
Message-ID: CAApHDvoirShaLmpwtqjnKfBUvWGoqSfcSSdEUK9nCkMWzujM+A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 13:48, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 02:43, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I'd be more excited about this discussion if I didn't think that
> > the chances of removing 'now'::timestamp are exactly zero. You
> > can't just delete useful decades-old features, whether there's
> > a better way or not.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on rejecting trailing punctuation with the
> timestamp special values?

Cancel that idea. I'd thought that these special values must be
standalone, but I didn't realise until a few minutes ago that it's
perfectly valid to mix them:

select 'yesterday 13:00:00'::timestamp, 'yesterday allballs'::timestamp;

David

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