Preserve default on column duplication when changing column type #234
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When duplicating a column for backfilling to change a column's type, ensure that any default on the column is preserved on the duplicated column.
This fixes the issue where changing type would lose any
DEFAULT
defined on the columnThis is part of a larger class of issues where duplicated columns are not faithfully preserving all properties of the original, tracked in #227.