On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:27 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:12:28PM +0530, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm able to insert data into a table column marked as GENERATED ALWAYS > > using COPY command however, it fails with INSERT command. Isn't that a > > bug with COPY command? > > Per the documentation in the section for GENERATED ALWAYS: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createtable.html > > "The clauses ALWAYS and BY DEFAULT determine how the sequence value is > given precedence over a user-specified value in an INSERT > statement. If ALWAYS is specified, a user-specified value is only > accepted if the INSERT statement specifies OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE. If > BY DEFAULT is specified, then the user-specified value takes > precedence. See INSERT for details. (In the COPY command, > user-specified values are always used regardless of this setting.)" > > So it behaves as documented.
Okay, Thanks for the pointer! -- With Regards, Ashutosh Sharma EnterpriseDB:http://www.enterprisedb.com
