"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The one big programming difficulty I see is the process of running through > all the existing tuples in the relation the column was added to and > evaluating the default for each row.
Basically you wanna do an "UPDATE tab SET col = <default expr>". I'd suggest letting the existing machinery handle as much of that as possible. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly