Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
>>> It feels a bit like unpredictable magic to have "DEFAULT" mean one
>>> thing and omitted columns mean something else.
>> Agreed. The current code behaves that way, but I think that's
>> indisputably a bug not behavior we want to keep.
> I'm not entirely convinced that's a bug. Both behaviors seem useful,
> and there has to be some way to specify each one.
I would love it if we had a way to provide remote-default
functionality. But per SQL spec these should produce the same results:INSERT INTO t(f1, f2) VALUES(1, DEFAULT);INSERT
INTOt(f1) VALUES(1);
If PG fails to work like that, it's not a feature, it's a bug.
Where the default is coming from is not a justification for failing
the POLA like that.
regards, tom lane