INSERT w/o variable names for a SERIAL type?

From: "Emils Klotins" <emils(at)mail(dot)usis(dot)bkc(dot)lv>
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Subject: INSERT w/o variable names for a SERIAL type?
Date: 2000-02-25 13:59:40
Message-ID: 200002251428.QAA06635@www.usis.bkc.lv
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Hello.

I am using, which is written for connecting to another server
and uses the AUTO_INCREMENT and BLOB fields (for storing
text). Apparently it was written for mysql(?).

I wanted to write a #define or two to change the relevant
places, such as

#define IDKEY "INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY
KEY" // mysql version
#define IDKEY "SERIAL PRIMARY KEY" // postgres

and currently stumbled upon mysql version of inserting the
autoincrement value: NULL
ie.
CREATE TABLE mytable (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, textfield
text);
the mysql variant for inserting a row would be:

INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (NULL, 'textvalue');
and NULL would get translated into the real value.

Now, if I want to write a general #define, I'd need to have a way
to specify 'default' for SERIAL field, for, if I omit the id field in
VALUES, I need to specify all the rest of the fields explicitly.

Is there any value I could put in place of id in VALUES part, to
make it replaced with the next value in sequence?

Emils

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