mike writes:
> in the current postgres docs alter table is as follows to add a column,
>
> ALTER TABLE distributors ADD COLUMN address VARCHAR(30);
>
> why is it when I add a column with a defualt value the default value is ignored?
> ALTER TABLE ind_personal ADD COLUMN reg_security CHAR(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';
Because no one has ever come around to implementing it.
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