On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>wrote:
> That works because you said NULL is a valid value for the column. If you > had specified NOT NULL then you would get an error about violating the NOT > NULL constraint. Since you have said NULL is a valid value and you actually > specified it in the INSERT the following applies: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/sql-createtable.html > > DEFAULT default_expr > .... > > The default expression will be used in any insert operation that does > not specify a value for the column. If there is no default for a column, > then the default is null. Hmm, so looks like there is no generic way out here to handle this in case of rules. Regards...
