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From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: Why forbid "INSERT INTO t () VALUES ();"
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In response to Why forbid "INSERT INTO t () VALUES ();"  (Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>)
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Fabien COELHO schrieb am 24.06.2020 um 14:18:
> I would like to create an "all defaults" row, i.e. a row composed of the default values for all attributes, so I
wrote:
>
>   INSERT INTO t() VALUES ();
>
> This is forbidden by postgres, and also sqlite.
>
> Is there any good reason why this should be the case?
>

Maybe because

   insert into t default values;

exists (and is standard SQL if I'm not mistaken)

Thomas

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