Re: [GENERAL] alter table ?

Yeah, that's true, but you can simply overcome this problem with following
query that you should issue right after "alter" query:
    update passwd set spamblock='TRUE';

Aleksey.

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Kevin Heflin wrote:

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> I went to alter a table, to add a column like so:
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> alter table passwd add column spamblock bool DEFAULT 'TRUE'
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> this added the new column of type bool but did not make the default true.
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> Any suggestions?
>
> Kevin
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