Re: null constraints and defaults - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matt Miller
Subject Re: null constraints and defaults
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Msg-id 1120076709.3095.25.camel@dbamm01-linux
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In response to null constraints and defaults  (elein@varlena.com (elein))
Responses Re: null constraints and defaults
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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:04 -0700, elein wrote:
> default constraint
> ...
> elein=# insert into nulldefault values (NULL);
> ERROR:  null value in column "one" violates not-null constraint

I think the idea of a DEFAULT value is to tell the DB what to supply
only if you omit the column from the insert statement altogether.  If
you deliberately call for a NULL, the DB will try to oblige.

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