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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]>
Cc: Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:31:33 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]> writes:
> >>> Now that DEFAULT 'now' will not work in PostgreSQL 7.4, will DEFAULT
> >>> 'infinity' and DEFAULT '-infinity' and the like stop working as well?
> >>
> >> No, because those values don't change over time. The issue here is when
> >> exactly does the default value get evaluated...
>
> > Ah, of course - but what about 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' - these should
> > also be mentioned in the release notes.
>
> Good point ... not that I think anyone is actually using such a default
> in the field, but the behavior did change ...
It would be pretty strange to use those as a default --- I am not
inclined to mention it in the release notes --- we don't mention every
change, only significant ones.
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