Re: Documentation fix for adding a column with a default value

Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-07-19T00:04:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 7/19/19 12:51 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 18 Jul 2019, at 17:46, Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The suggested change pares down the "Tip" to more of a brief "Note", which IMHO is a bit
>>>> terse for that section of the documentation (which has more of a tutorial character),
>>>> and the contents of the original tip basically still apply for volatile default values
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I've attached another suggestion for rewording this which should also make the
>>>> mechanics of the operation a little clearer.
>>
>>> Thank you, that better explains it. Looks good to me.
>>
>> Shouldn't we add that to the current commit fest?
> 
> The current commitfest is closed for new additions, but please add it to the
> next one (2019-09) and it will be picked up then.

To me it looks like a minor documentation correction to fix an omission
from a patch already in PostgreSQL.


Regards

Ian Barwick


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Commits

  1. Doc: clarify when table rewrites happen with column addition and DEFAULT