Re: NULL becomes default - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Julian Scarfe
Subject Re: NULL becomes default
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In response to NULL becomes default  ("Julian Scarfe" <julian@avbrief.com>)
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>> Thus I would like NULLs in such INSERTs to be treated as DEFAULT rather
>> than violating the constraint.  Is there an easy way to do that at the
>> database level?

From: "Markus Schaber" <schabi@logix-tt.com>

> Did you try a "before insert" trigger that checks new_id for null
> values, and replaces it with nextval()?

So thinking about this a little more, it requires me to be able to change a 
column value to DEFAULT (unless I implement the default from scratch in the 
trigger, but that feels messy).  I don't have much experience of triggers: 
can I do that?

Thanks

Julian 




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