| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Happy column adding (was RE: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping) |
| Date: | 2000-01-25 19:05:43 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20000125110543.00f82ec0@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 12:39 PM 1/25/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There's no provision for then pulling out the default value and
>> returning it instead.
>
>Would it even be possible to do that? I'm not sure that heap_getattr
>has any way to find the default. It only has a TupleDesc, not a
>reference to the relation itself...
In that case, then presumably not. You've just pushed me beyond
the limits of my understanding of that code, I'm afraid!
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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