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To: "V. A." <a2891891@smail.Uni-Koeln.DE>
cc: "Postgres-Interface" <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] libpq++ - copy - default values 
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:16:13 +0100
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 09:48:30 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"V. A." <a2891891@smail.Uni-Koeln.DE> writes:
> My problem is, that I don't know how I can tell the copy-command to
> leave the first field untouched, so that it gets the default value from a
> sequence....

You can't.  COPY is for plain verbatim dumping and reloading of data.
Use INSERT if you need to have any calculations done.

			regards, tom lane