Re: Quick Help

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Quick Help
Date: 2002-12-06 21:34:21
Message-ID: 13260.1039210461@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Messing about with ADD COLUMN...

> I'm not certain how to re-evaluate the default expression for each
> row?

Basically you'll want to apply ExecEvalExpr (or perhaps
ExecEvalExprSwitchContext) to the "cooked" expression tree.
Look at the execution of per-row constraints in ADD CONSTRAINT;
should be very very similar.

regards, tom lane

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