Re: COPY, \copy with defaults

From: CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY, \copy with defaults
Date: 2004-08-09 05:00:18
Message-ID: 20040809050018.67016.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com
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--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I guess this is a feature request since I can't
> figure
> > out a way to do it directly in postgresql (plus
> > COPY/\copy isn't in SQL specs).
>
> You do know that COPY uses the column defaults for
> all columns not
> listed in the input list?

Yep, but that won't work (foreign key id's, timestamps
other than now(), ...)

CSN

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