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Re: [HACKERS] Bug or feature? COPY ignores column defaults - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Bug or feature? COPY ignores column defaults
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Msg-id 23083.917538105@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Bug or feature? COPY ignores column defaults  (Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>)
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Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> writes:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> At release 6.4.2, COPY does not respect column defaults:
>> INSERT works correctly, however.
>> Is this intentional, or a bug?

> This is standard behaviour.

As it must be, or dumping/reloading a table via COPY would
fail to preserve null fields in columns with defaults.
        regards, tom lane

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