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From: Pantelis Theodosiou <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[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: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 10:51:20 +0100
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 1:11 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <[email protected]> writes:
> > Maybe I'm slow on the uptake, but I've yet to see anything here where
> > time literals act in a special way DEFAULT constraints. This is why I
> > couldn't understand why we should be adding documentation about this
> > under CREATE TABLE.
>
> It's not that the parsing rules are any different: it's that in
> ordinary DML queries, it seldom matters very much whether a
> subexpression is evaluated at parse time versus run time.
> In CREATE TABLE that difference is very in-your-face, so people
> who haven't understood the rules clearly can get burnt.
>
> However, there are certainly other places where it matters,
> such as queries in plpgsql functions.  So I understand your
> reluctance to go on about it in CREATE TABLE.  At the same
> time, I see where David J. is coming from.
>
> Maybe we could have a discussion of this in some single spot,
> and link to it from CREATE TABLE and other relevant places?
> ISTR there is something about it in the plpgsql doco already.
>

+1 to this idea.

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