Scott Marlowe wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 09:49, Geoffrey KRETZ wrote:
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>>Scott Marlowe wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 09:38, Geoffrey KRETZ wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I've got a question about a difference beetween PGS 7.2 and PGS 7.4
>>>>behaviours.
>>>>
>>>>With PGS 7.2 :
>>>>INSERT INTO table (col1, col2) VALUES (val1) doesn't fail
>>>>
>>>>With PGS 7.4 :
>>>>INSERT INTO table (col1, col2) VALUES (val1) failed
>>>>
>>>>Is it a known bug ?
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>>>Yes, if 7.2 did that it WAS a known bug. Fixed in 7.4. It is illegal
>>>to have unmatching numbers of columns in the insert list and the column
>>>list.
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>>>Did 7.2 really do that?
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>>7.1 do that and while testing recently, we found that in 7.2, it's the
>>same behaviour. In 7.3, it's already ok.
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>>I've answer the question just to be sure that it's a postgresql bug.
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>Note that in the old version, postgresql would have inserted a default
>value or a NULL if there was no default. With the addition of the
>DEFAULT keyword, you can get the same basic effect with:
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>insert into table (col1, col2) values (val1,DEFAULT);
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I've read a thread about that, but I wasn't sure about the PostgreSQL's
version where the change was made.
Thx for your answers !
Geoffrey KRETZ
Four J's Development Tools
