Clickhouse - add a new column with the default value being based off another column

Question

I have a table in Clickhouse, table1, with columns A and B. I want to alter this table to have a new column C. For the purpose of default values (future data will have a different approach) I want C to be filled in with data from A.

I know how to achieve this with a static default value, e.g. 0 but that is not what I'm trying to achieve here.

Apgar

Answer 1

DEFAULT may accept expression not only static value:

ALTER TABLE table1 ADD COLUMN C String DEFAULT A

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