Re: [HACKERS] SEQUENCES and COPY FROM

Mike Embry wrote:
> 
> In the process of upgrading from 6.1 to 6.3.2+patches at long last.
> Just bumped into an interesting
> problem with sequences.  With 6.1, you could use sequences with COPY
> FROM.  This no longer
> seems to be true with 6.3.2+patches.  INSERT and UPDATE still work fine
> but when using COPY FROM
> all sequence fields are either 0 or NULL.
> 
> Can live without but curious if it's a bug or feature?  Maybe fixed in
> 6.4?  Wasn't COPY FROM changed
> at the time pg_shadow was added?

Feature...
DEFAULT is for INSERT only (when column was not specified at all)!
Use triggers from contrib/spi/autoinc.* - triggers work
for everything :)

Vadim