Error when trying to add DEFAULT Value to NEW column

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt">Hi,</span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font color="black"
face="CourierNew" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">If this is a known issue, please
ignore…just direct me to the fix:</span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font
color="black"face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Receiving an error
“Column‘no’ does not exist” when trying to add a default value to a <u>new</u> column via properties panel.
</span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">When you create the new column without a default value,
it’sfine. The default value can then be added afterwards. </span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font color="black"
face="CourierNew" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><p
class="MsoPlainText"><fontcolor="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Alsosubsequent deletion and re-creation of the column does not produce the same
conditionand the default value can then be added with no further problems. </span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font
color="black"face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><p
class="MsoPlainText"><fontcolor="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Theerror indicates the column “no” does not exist, but I am trying to add straight
textto the default value. Can’t see why that field is trying to link/check columns. I have tried
quotes.</span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Using Version 8.1 on Windows XP SP2 and pgadmin
1.4.1.</span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Thank you, kindly</span></font><p
class="MsoPlainText"><fontcolor="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">L.</span></font><pclass="MsoPlainText"><font color="black" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></font><p class="MsoPlainText"><font
color="black"face="Courier New" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><img height="120"
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