On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:04 -0700, elein wrote: > default constraint > ... > elein=# insert into nulldefault values (NULL); > ERROR: null value in column "one" violates not-null constraint I think the idea of a DEFAULT value is to tell the DB what to supply only if you omit the column from the insert statement altogether. If you deliberately call for a NULL, the DB will try to oblige. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly