On 22/04/2019 18:49, Tom Lane wrote:
"Ray O'Donnell" <r...@rodonnell.ie> writes:
In general, then, is it not possible to use an expression thus? -
[...] ALTER COLUMN [...] RESTART WITH <expression here>
No. In general, PG's utility commands (everything except SELECT/
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) don't do expression evaluation. Partly this
is laziness or lack of round tuits, but in some cases there are
also interesting semantic problems.
Fair enough. Thanks Tom, Adrian & Thomas for the help!
Ray.
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