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From: David Rowley <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: James Coleman <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:19:38 +1200
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 at 17:12, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we want to do anything about
> nextval()?  I guess if you hold your head at the correct
> angle, that's also a magic-input-value issue, in the sense
> that the question is when does regclass input get resolved.

I think I'm not understanding what's special about that.  Aren't
'now'::timestamp and 'seq_name'::regclass are just casts that are
evaluated during parse time in transformExpr()?

David






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