Re: [Firebird-devel] Adding NOT NULL fields with DEFAULT

[Rustam G. <fir...@ma...>]

Helen Borrie>
> Let me see....you want to change (break) the standard behaviour for inserts and "enrich" it so that "default" becomes dynamic 
> behaviour that (1) resets existing data, (2) bypasses NOT NULL validation for updates and (3) makes the value of the defaulted 
> field a moving target.


It is just my impressions too.

What need of this moving logic from DML (current standart logic) to DDL ?
BTW, Adriano, correct me if I am wrong - by your logic, field values will be
"calculted" (by some algorithm) when they reads _instead of_ insert ?