On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 10:31, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> > I think a longer term solution would be to add a type to pg_attrdef and
> > a bool for ALWAYS. (Tom?)
>
> I thought about it, but won't that change the on-disk format? Since
> minor version upgrades aren't supposed to require a dump / restore,
> and I understand 7.4 is already in feature freeze, the earliest
> opportunity for something like this would be 7.5.
Yes it would. The solution you have already requires an initdb (changed
pg_proc.h), as such will probably need to wait until 7.5 for
integration. You might be able to squeeze it in as a contrib module for
7.4 though.