Remove arbitrary ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN restriction.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: a06e41deebdf74b8b5109329dc75b2e9d9057962
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-26T11:37:08Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Remove arbitrary ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN restriction.

The previous coding prevented ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN from being used
with a non-NULL default in situations where the table's rowtype was being
used elsewhere.  But this is a completely arbitrary restriction since
you could do the same operation in multiple steps (add the column, add
the default, update the table).

Inspired by a patch from Noah Misch, though I didn't use his code.

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