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Re: Question about NOT NULL and default values.

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Stephan Szabo
> <sszabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Tim Uckun wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to change this behavior so that an attempt to set the
> >> column to NULL will result in the default value being put in the
> >> field?
> >
> > I don't think so specifically with default, but you could use a before
> > trigger instead that would put in a value in the new row if NULL was
> > given.
>
> I'm pretty sure that will fail as the primary key or not null
> constraint comes first.

Well, since he said that he'd removed the not null constraint in his
testing, I figured that was a viable option.


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