Re: [HACKERS] DEFAULT fixed

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] DEFAULT fixed
Date: 1999-05-23 01:12:19
Message-ID: 199905230112.VAA13489@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Now that we know the problem comes from missing atttypmod info, it
> seems likely that related failures can occur for NUMERIC and other
> types that depend on atttypmod. (Are there any such types? Even
> if there aren't now, there will probably be more and more in future.)
> It might be best to just bite the bullet and make the parser carry
> around both the type's OID and typmod at all times.

I will try to add it, but I must not that there are some cases where I
don't have access to the atttypmod of the result, so it may not be
possible to do it in every case. Perhaps I should just leave this for
post 6.5, because we don't have any other bug reports on it.

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