Re: Create an empty record

Oh I forgot

Naturally it works with setting eg procuct in this case to null but it
does not seem very clean.

INSERT INTO product(product) VALUES(null);

Does anybody have a clean way to do this?

Best regards
Per-Olof Pettersson

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2001-05-19, 21:24:54, Per-Olof Pettersson <pgsql(at)peope(dot)net> wrote
regarding Create an empty record:

> Hi

> How would one goabout creating an empty record (for use in relations).

> Eg
> create table product(
> productid SERIAL NOT NULL,
> product TEXT,
> PRIMARY KEY(productid)
> );

> create table product_billable(
> productid INT4 NOT NULL,
> billaddress TEXT,
> PRIMARY KEY (productid),
> FOREIGN KEY (productid) REFERENES product(productid) ON DELETE
CASCADE
> );

> All fields except for the primary key can be NULL.

> What if I wanted to add a new billable product but I have not got a name
> for it yet?

> So how could I insert a new record in product that can be used in
> product_billable?

> I have tried INSERT INTO product() VALUES(); but as expected it did not
> work.

> All help appreciated
> Best regards
> Per-Olof Pettersson