Re: inserting via "on insert" rule

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Andreas Fromm writes:
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>>I was thinking of defining a view "users" over "persons" which would let
>>me retrive the list of useres. But How would I implement the rule for
>>insertiung users? I tryed the following but NEW is not known where I
>>want to use it:
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>>CREATE VIEW users AS
>> SELECT * FROM persons WHERE is_user(person.id) = TRUE;
>>
>>CREATE RULE insert_on_users AS ON INSERT
>> TO users DO INSTEAD
>> INSERT INTO persons SELECT * FROM NEW;
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>You can write
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>... DO INSTEAD INSERT INTO persons VALUES (NEW.col1, NEW.col2, ...);
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Yes, but what if I don't pass a certain col. Is the default value
inserted instead? Or will the transaction fail because of a wrong number
of columns?