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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "there is no way to insert less than one row"
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 13:54:34 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 25.03.21 00:55, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> : When a table is created, it contains no data. The first thing to do
> : before a database can be of much use is to insert data. Data is
> : inserted one row at a time. Of course you can also insert
> : more than one row in a single command, but it is not possible to
> : insert something that is not a complete row.
> : Even if you know only some column values, a complete row is created.
> 
> The next paragraphs explain that omitted columns are defaulted, which
> IMO flows neatly from here.

done that way

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