"Jeff Galyan" <jeff(at)richrelevance(dot)com> writes:
> Take an existing table with some data in it and add a nullable column of
> type boolean with default value true. In 8.2, 'select bool_column from
> my_table' would have returned 'true' for all rows where the column had not
> been explicitly set (which should be all of them at this point).
Works for me:
regression=# create table foo (f1 int);
CREATE TABLE
regression=# insert into foo values(1),(2);
INSERT 0 2
regression=# alter table foo add column b bool default true;
ALTER TABLE
regression=# select * from foo;
f1 | b
----+---
1 | t
2 | t
(2 rows)
Please provide a concrete test case to demonstrate what you are seeing.
regards, tom lane