+1 (non binding)

Regards
JB

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM Ryan Blue <rdb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’d like to vote on the spec changes in PR 12841. This is a small change that 
> makes handling default values for structs much easier. Initially, we allowed 
> both a struct and its fields to have default values, but the values could 
> conflict. For instance, ADD COLUMN point struct<x int default 0, y int 
> default 0> default struct(-1, -1).
>
> The fix is to always track default values at the field level and allow only 
> null or null-null for the struct level defaults. That makes the feature more 
> predictable because the struct’s default never needs to be modified or have 
> field-level changes applied (i.e. removing field y or adding field z).
>
> In addition, I want to mention that this is not a one-way decision. We can 
> always allow the struct-level default to differ later, if we have use cases 
> in which a missing struct needs to have a different default than missing 
> fields.
>
> Please vote in the next 72 hours:
>
> [ ] +1 Add these changes to the spec
> [ ] +0
> [ ] -1 I have questions and/or concerns
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan

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