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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
