Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm ... the way I would have expected to work is
>>
>> alter table posts
>> alter column deleted drop default,
>> alter column deleted type char(1)
>> using (case when deleted then 't' else 'f' end),
>> alter column deleted set default 'f';
> Perhaps it is easiest to allow the user to specify the new default after
> USING?
He already did --- I don't want to add some random new syntax for this.
Maybe we could hack things so that if both an ALTER TYPE and a SET
DEFAULT operation are present, we implicitly add a DROP DEFAULT at the
start. But leave the timing of any explicitly specified DROP DEFAULT
as-is.
regards, tom lane
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