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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Definging columns for INSERT statements
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:12:53 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwbpWc97huJPbQSQ_F1JoEk+X_3KTbSDGdv+8ueUhktO+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:11 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have > 100 rows to add to a table using INSERT INTO statements. I want
> the
> PK to be the next value in the sequence. Would this be the appropriate
> syntax for the columns to be entered?
>

The whole point of the server is to parse text and tell you if it has
syntax errors and then, if not, execute what you gave it.


> INSERT INTO people (person_nbr
> DEFAULT('people_person_nbr_seq'),lname,fname,job_title DEFAULT
> 'Contact',company_nbr,loc_nbr,direct_phone,cell_phone,email,active
> DEFAULT('true')) VALUES
>

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-insert.html

Not sure where you got the idea that something besides a plain column name
can appear in the optional parentheses after the table name.

David J.

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