Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> writes: >>> It feels a bit like unpredictable magic to have "DEFAULT" mean one >>> thing and omitted columns mean something else.
>> Agreed. The current code behaves that way, but I think that's >> indisputably a bug not behavior we want to keep. > I'm not entirely convinced that's a bug. Both behaviors seem useful, > and there has to be some way to specify each one. I would love it if we had a way to provide remote-default functionality. But per SQL spec these should produce the same results: INSERT INTO t(f1, f2) VALUES(1, DEFAULT); INSERT INTO t(f1) VALUES(1); If PG fails to work like that, it's not a feature, it's a bug. Where the default is coming from is not a justification for failing the POLA like that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers