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? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly