Re: Problem while inserting a varchar

Hello, thank you Tom Lane, thank you Michael Glaesemann,

Tom Lane wrote:
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> 1. Explicitly say you want the default for the first column:
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> INSERT INTO RETRY VALUES ( DEFAULT, '0:40:f4:d3:0:0', ... );
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That seems to work. I allready omited rid, I think this was the problem.

Now I write (trough my program): INSERT INTO RETRY VALUES ( DEFAULT,
'0:40:f4:d3:0:0','0:40:f4:d3:0:0',1, 2008-02-17,20:34:00 );

But now I get an syntax-error at character 87 »:«. I think that has
nothing to do with my first problem.
The datatype here is time. Does the ":" has a special meaning here?
> 2. Use a column name list, and omit "rid" from it:
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> INSERT INTO RETRY (source_macaddress, destination_macaddress, ...)
> VALUES ( '0:40:f4:d3:0:0', ... );
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> 3. Put the serial column last, so that you can just omit it without
> saying anything. (This last is not strictly according to the letter of
> the SQL spec, I think, but PG allows it and so do some other databases.)
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> BTW, why don't you use the "macaddr" data type for those MAC address
> columns? Then you'd get some error checking ...
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Really? I did not find anything in the documentation about it. That
would be very appropriate.

Gruss Christian