Re: Definging columns for INSERT statements

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:11 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
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.