Re: [GENERAL] alter table ?

From: Postgres DBA <postgres(at)nest(dot)bistbn(dot)com>
To: Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net>
Cc: "PGSQL-General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] alter table ?
Date: 1998-11-13 08:04:31
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.02.9811130959340.27705-100000@nest.bistbn.com
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Yeah, that's true, but you can simply overcome this problem with following
query that you should issue right after "alter" query:
update passwd set spamblock='TRUE';

Aleksey.

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Kevin Heflin wrote:

>
> I went to alter a table, to add a column like so:
>
> alter table passwd add column spamblock bool DEFAULT 'TRUE'
>
> this added the new column of type bool but did not make the default true.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Kevin
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