Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [PATCH] Fix column SQL
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Timon wrote: > attached patch fixes SQL of column in SQL pane. > sql should be like > ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN tms timestamp without time zone NOT NULL > DEFAULT now(); > and not > ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN tms timestamp without time zone; > ALTER TABLE table ALTER COLUMN tms SET NOT NULL; > ALTER TABLE table ALTER COLUMN tms SET DEFAULT now(); > > it avoids not null constraint problem when you add column to existing > table with some data I can't find the references in the archives (I'm sure this has come up before), but iirc, we intentionally didn't do this as it wouldn't be clear to the user that despite they might be about to cause a huge write. I'm sure there was more to it than that, but my Google-fu is failing me at the moment. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
Re: [pgadmin-support] [pgadmin-hackers] [PATCH] Fix column SQL
maybe we should show this script as comment in sql pane? like DROP column sql 2012/8/23 Dave Page : > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Timon wrote: >> I found it >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2012-07/msg7.php > > Yeah, that was the most recent one (though, that was really about the > "generate script" options), but I'm sure there was something > previously. > > -- > Dave Page > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > Twitter: @pgsnake > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- All bugs reserved -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
Re: [pgadmin-support] [pgadmin-hackers] [PATCH] Fix column SQL
That doesn't seem unreasonable. It should probably include a comment in that case, explaining why there are two versions of the SQL. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Timon wrote: > maybe we should show this script as comment in sql pane? like DROP column sql > > 2012/8/23 Dave Page : >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Timon wrote: >>> I found it >>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2012-07/msg7.php >> >> Yeah, that was the most recent one (though, that was really about the >> "generate script" options), but I'm sure there was something >> previously. >> >> -- >> Dave Page >> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com >> Twitter: @pgsnake >> >> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com >> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > > > -- > All bugs reserved > > > -- > Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
