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> DBI is complex enough, and AIUI the DBI philosophy opposes adding features > to the core that will cause implementation headaches for driver authors. > > The standard perl idiom for default values is You misunderstand. The DEFAULT is on the database side, not the client, and is represented by sending the literal string 'DEFAULT' to the backend, similar to the way that null values are sent by the literal string 'NULL'. The database then populates the column with whatever the default has been set as, which may be a constant, or may be (in PostgreSQL's case) an arbitrarily complex expression or call to a stored procedure. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200604262344 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFEUD4jvJuQZxSWSsgRAjUPAJ9X8mTMNT2cPZYCPHVFVuBr2ydccQCdFFma BbE1KNnv1ofBwOkd8UhOFM8= =j+L7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
