Re: ANSI Compliant Inserts - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ANSI Compliant Inserts
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Msg-id 7836.1018848474@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ANSI Compliant Inserts  (Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>)
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Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> writes:
> IMHO, from a developers/users prospective I want to get atleast a NOTICE
> when they mismatch, and really preferably I want the query to fail
> because if I'm naming a column list then forget a value for it something
> is wrong...

So far I think everyone agrees that if an explicit column name list is
given, then it should fail if the column values don't match up.  But
what do you think about the case with no column name list?

            regards, tom lane

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