diff --git a/angel_migration_runner/CHANGELOG.md b/angel_migration_runner/CHANGELOG.md
index 87b68dd0..a22ee51a 100755
--- a/angel_migration_runner/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/angel_migration_runner/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# 2.0.0-alpha.5
+* Support default values for columns.
+
 # 2.0.0-alpha.4
 * Include the names of migration classes when running.
 
diff --git a/angel_migration_runner/example/main.dart b/angel_migration_runner/example/main.dart
index f5a4b467..4189dfe3 100755
--- a/angel_migration_runner/example/main.dart
+++ b/angel_migration_runner/example/main.dart
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import 'package:angel_migration/angel_migration.dart';
 import 'package:angel_migration_runner/angel_migration_runner.dart';
 import 'package:angel_migration_runner/postgres.dart';
+import 'package:angel_orm/angel_orm.dart';
 import 'package:postgres/postgres.dart';
 import '../../angel_migration/example/todo.dart';
 
@@ -9,7 +11,23 @@ var migrationRunner = new PostgresMigrationRunner(
   migrations: [
     new UserMigration(),
     new TodoMigration(),
+    new FooMigration(),
   ],
 );
 
 main(List<String> args) => runMigrations(migrationRunner, args);
+
+class FooMigration extends Migration {
+  @override
+  void up(Schema schema) {
+    schema.create('foos', (table) {
+      table
+        ..serial('id').primaryKey()
+        ..varChar('bar', length: 64)
+        ..timeStamp('created_at').defaultsTo(currentTimestamp);
+    });
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void down(Schema schema) => schema.drop('foos');
+}
diff --git a/angel_migration_runner/lib/src/postgres/table.dart b/angel_migration_runner/lib/src/postgres/table.dart
index 1dbcda21..c5f6d9e1 100755
--- a/angel_migration_runner/lib/src/postgres/table.dart
+++ b/angel_migration_runner/lib/src/postgres/table.dart
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import 'dart:collection';
 import 'package:angel_orm/angel_orm.dart';
 import 'package:angel_migration/angel_migration.dart';
+import 'package:charcode/ascii.dart';
 
 abstract class PostgresGenerator {
   static String columnType(MigrationColumn column) {
@@ -15,6 +16,27 @@ abstract class PostgresGenerator {
     var buf = new StringBuffer(columnType(column));
 
     if (column.isNullable == false) buf.write(' NOT NULL');
+    if (column.defaultValue != null) {
+      String s;
+      var value = column.defaultValue;
+      if (value is RawSql)
+        s = value.value;
+      else if (value is String) {
+        var b = StringBuffer();
+        for (var ch in value.codeUnits) {
+          if (ch == $single_quote) {
+            b.write("\\'");
+          } else {
+            b.writeCharCode(ch);
+          }
+        }
+        s = b.toString();
+      } else {
+        s = value.toString();
+      }
+
+      buf.write(' DEFAULT $s');
+    }
 
     if (column.indexType == IndexType.unique)
       buf.write(' UNIQUE');
diff --git a/angel_migration_runner/pubspec.yaml b/angel_migration_runner/pubspec.yaml
index a1e4a5f8..7ac7d7ab 100755
--- a/angel_migration_runner/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/angel_migration_runner/pubspec.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: angel_migration_runner
-version: 2.0.0-alpha.4
+version: 2.0.0-alpha.5
 description: Command-line based database migration runner for Angel's ORM.
 author: Tobe O <thosakwe@gmail.com>
 homepage: https://github.com/angel-dart/migration
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ dependencies:
   angel_migration: ^2.0.0-alpha
   angel_orm: ^2.0.0-dev.2
   args: ^1.0.0
+  charcode: ^1.0.0
   postgres: ">=0.9.5 <2.0.0"
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