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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]>
Cc: Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:21:34 -0400
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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 ...

			regards, tom lane

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