Re: ALTER TABLE ... SET DEFAULT

Been there, done that :).  It put the current epoch value in as the
default value for updated.

- brian

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

>
> Brian McCane <bmccane@mccons.net> writes:
> > alter table foo alter column updated set default 'since_epoch()' ;
> > this gets the error:
> > ERROR:  pg_atoi: error in "since_epoch()": can't parse "since_epoch()"
>
> Try it without the quotes.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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