Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Rod Taylor writes:
>
> > I submitted a patch which would make Postgresql ANSI compliant in
> > regards to INSERT with a provided column list. As Tom states below,
> > this is not full compliance.
> >
> > CREATE TABLE tab(col1 text, col2 text);
> >
> > INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1'); -- bad by spec (enforced
> > by patch)
> > INSERT INTO tab (col1, col2) VALUES ('val1', 'val2'); -- good
> >
> > INSERT INTO tab VALUES ('val1'); -- bad by spec (not enforced)
> > INSERT INTO tab VALUES ('val1', 'val2'); -- good
>
> I recall that this was the behavior we agreed we wanted. IMHO, it would
> be conditional on the INSERT ... VALUES (DEFAULT) capability being
> provided. I'm not sure if that is there yet.
Yes, it is key to have DEFAULT working before we change this, and it is
in CVS now, committed a week or two ago.
Peter, are you saying you don't want to require all columns to be
specified when INSERT doesn't list the columns?
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