Re: insert into ... select ... and column order - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Jan 15, 2008, at 12:16 , Albe Laurenz wrote:

> Because the SQL standard says so.
>
> ISO/IEC 9075-2, Chapter 14.8, Syntax Rule 9:
>
> "If the <insert column list> is omitted, then an <insert column list>
>  that identifies all columns of T in the ascending sequence of
>  their ordinal positions within T is implicit."
>
> You want an explicit <insert column list>:
>
> INSERT INTO dest_2
> (user_id, product_id, permit_start_date, permit_end_date)
> SELECT ...

Thanks to both of you for this answer.

  - Tore.