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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:14:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 7:52=E2=80=AFPM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>=
 wrote:

> If that's the case, maybe a tiny step towards what Peter proposed is
> just to make trailing punctuation fail for timestamp special values in
> v18.
>
>
I'm game. If anyone is using the ambiguous spelling it is probably to their
benefit to have it break and realize they wanted a function expression, not
a constant expression.

David J.

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t-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,Helve=
tica,sans-serif">On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 7:52=E2=80=AFPM David Rowley &lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:dgrowleyml@gmail.com">dgrowleyml@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<=
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_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204=
,204);padding-left:1ex">If that&#39;s the case, maybe a tiny step towards w=
hat Peter proposed is<br>
just to make trailing punctuation fail for timestamp special values in<br>
v18.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=
=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I&#39;m game. If anyone is usin=
g the ambiguous spelling it is probably to their benefit to have it break a=
nd realize they wanted a function expression, not a constant expression.</d=
iv><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-s=
erif"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,hel=
vetica,sans-serif">David J.</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font=
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