Re: INSERT ... VALUES... with ORDER BY / LIMIT

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... VALUES... with ORDER BY / LIMIT
Date: 2010-10-04 01:05:08
Message-ID: CCE2F56E-FBB5-430A-873B-E440A71D7CAF@gmail.com
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On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> DEFAULT is disallowed now in such VALUES list, but we can explain it
>> is allowed in a "simple" VALUES of INSERT case.
>
> I don't think we really need to explain anything. This is per spec;
> if you trace the way that a DEFAULT expression can appear in INSERT,
> it's treated as a <contextually typed value specification>,
> which appears in <contextually typed table value constructor>,
> which is VALUES and nothing else.

I thought we were discussing what should go into OUR documentation.

...Robert

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