Re: [PATCHES] ANSI Compliant Inserts

Rod Taylor wrote:
> For the latter one, it could be argued that the user understands the
> table in question and has inserted the values they require. New
> columns are added at the end, and probably don't affect the operation
> in question so why should it be changed to suit new columns? But,
> automated code should always be written with the columns explicitly
> listed, so this may be a user who has simply forgotten to add the
> value -- easy to do on wide tables.

I think our new DEFAULT for insert allows people to properly match all
columns, and I think it is too error prone to allow missing columns in
any INSERT.

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