Re: Help with ADD COLUMN

On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 08:34, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 03:48 PM 23/11/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >I assume that's the correct behaviour?  If they specify a default, the
> >column should be auto-filled with that default, right?
> 
> Good question. We might want some input from other DBs; Dec RDB default 
> existing rows to NULL irrespective of the 'DEFAULT' clause.

Also, how would I express a new column with default for which I _want_ 
that column in old records to be NULL ?

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Hannu