Re: Using CTID system column as a "temporary" primary key

Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at>

From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-03-29T16:43:37Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 2023-03-29 07:59:54 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 3/29/23 07:19, Sebastien Flaesch wrote:
> > INSERT statements must not use the serial column, so you have to list
> > all columns of the table and provide only the values of the non-serial
> > columns. With Informix you could just specific a zero to get a new
> > generated serial, but seems this has never been considered with
> > PostgreSQL.
> 
> Yes it has:
[...]
> insert into seq_test values(default, 'test');

Default is not the same as zero.

        hp

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