Re: [SQL] INSERT w/o variable names for a SERIAL type? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Emils Klotins writes:

> Now, if I want to write a general #define, I'd need to have a way 
> to specify 'default' for SERIAL field, for, if I omit the id field in 
> VALUES, I need to specify all the rest of the fields explicitly. 
> 
> Is there any value I could put in place of id in VALUES part, to 
> make it replaced with the next value in sequence?

INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...);

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