Oh I forgot
Naturally it works with setting eg procuct in this case to null but it
does not seem very clean.
INSERT INTO product(product) VALUES(null);
Does anybody have a clean way to do this?
Best regards
Per-Olof Pettersson
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 2001-05-19, 21:24:54, Per-Olof Pettersson <pgsql@peope.net> wrote
regarding Create an empty record:
> Hi
> How would one goabout creating an empty record (for use in relations).
> Eg
> create table product(
> productid SERIAL NOT NULL,
> product TEXT,
> PRIMARY KEY(productid)
> );
> create table product_billable(
> productid INT4 NOT NULL,
> billaddress TEXT,
> PRIMARY KEY (productid),
> FOREIGN KEY (productid) REFERENES product(productid) ON DELETE
CASCADE
> );
> All fields except for the primary key can be NULL.
> What if I wanted to add a new billable product but I have not got a name
> for it yet?
> So how could I insert a new record in product that can be used in
> product_billable?
> I have tried INSERT INTO product() VALUES(); but as expected it did not
> work.
> All help appreciated
> Best regards
> Per-Olof Pettersson