Re: [DOCS] Fwd: [GENERAL] Table Rewrite During ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN ... DEFAULT NULL

2014-04-03 Thread Amit Langote
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Amit Langote writes: >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> We could just rephrase the ALTER TABLE docs to say that the table >>> rewrite is avoided if you omit the DEFAULT clause, rather than >>> saying that a null default works.

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2014-04-03 Thread Antony
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Re: [DOCS] Fwd: [GENERAL] Table Rewrite During ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN ... DEFAULT NULL

2014-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
Amit Langote writes: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> We could just rephrase the ALTER TABLE docs to say that the table >> rewrite is avoided if you omit the DEFAULT clause, rather than >> saying that a null default works. > How does the attached sound? > Wonder if a rewrite-