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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Adding a Column: default values now allowed
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:57:42 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Michael Fuhr <[email protected]> writes:
> PostgreSQL 8.0.0rc4
> 5.6.1 "Adding a Column" says:

>   Also, you cannot define a default value on a new column.  According
>   to the SQL standard, this would have to fill the new columns in the
>   existing rows with the default value, which is not implemented yet.

Drat, I thought I'd caught all those.  Thanks.

			regards, tom lane

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