Re: Insert into a table with only a SERIAL

At 06:56 PM 27-06-2000 -0700, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> "INSERT INTO aaa DEFAULT VALUES" is the SQL-approved verbiage.
>
>Wow, the same question in two days. Perhaps FAQ worthy?

Actually it seems to happen quite often - all of a sudden people ask the
same thing around the same time.

Maybe part of that World Mind/Consciousness thing :).

But it could also be something like the 3 buses in a row phenomena.

For example: newbies start with a standard distribution of questions.

Some of them are answered by people on the list, some not.

Thus a bunch of newbies will reach a certain stage in their
understanding/knowledge and experience. These bunch will tend encounter
similar problems, and thus ask similar questions, some of which are answered.

This hypothesis predicts that "same question in X days" will happen more
often than in a random/unbiased case.

Cheerio,
Link.