Hello,
I've got a table with these columns:
user_id SERIAL CONSTRAINT pk_user_auth_user_id PRIMARY KEY,
email VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL UNIQUE ,
password VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL ,
status SMALLINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1
But when I tried using the following INSERT statement I got an error about not being able to parse the input.
INSERT INTO user_auth VALUES ('foo@example.com', 'password', 1);
psql:../data/user_auth.dat:13: ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "foo@example.com": can't parse "foo@example.com"
So this indicates that an integer was expected as the first value.
In order to get it to do what I want I had to use this:
INSERT INTO user_auth VALUES (nextval('user_auth_user_id_seq'), 'foo@example.com', 'password', 1);
Question:
Is this really necessary or am I missing something?
I thought specifying SERIAL columns is not neccessary in INSERT statements.
Thank you,
Otis
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