Reclassify DEFAULT as a column_constraint item in the CREATE TABLE syntax. This is how it was documented originally, but several years ago somebody decided that DEFAULT isn't a type of constraint. Well, the grammar thinks it is. The documentation was wrong in two ways: it alleged that DEFAULT had to appear before any other kind of constraint, and it alleged that you can't prefix a DEFAULT clause with a "CONSTRAINT name" clause, when in fact you can. (The latter behavior probably isn't SQL-standard, but our grammar has always allowed it.)
This patch responds to Fujii Masao's observation that the ALTER TABLE documentation mistakenly implied that you couldn't include DEFAULT in ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN; though this isn't the way he proposed fixing it. Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=31d2efaef507f280f4df895e1730a9ec8c31aa12 Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml | 2 +- doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml | 47 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
