Default Value in Table Setup Help

[Dev]

Hello all,

I am working on setting up a table that will append a sequence to the end
of the value inserted.
Example;
INSERT INTO test (test) VALUES ('abcd');
And have the data in the database be;
abcd0001

Now I do have things setup else where were the default value for the field
is such:
default ('abcd'::text || lpad(text(nextval('test_sequence'::text)), 4,
'0'::text))

But i want the "abcd" or what erver to be added in the insert?

What am I missing to make this happen?

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[Adam Kavan]

At 02:57 PM 8/18/03 -0400, Dev wrote:

Hello all,

I am working on setting up a table that will append a sequence to the end
of the value inserted.
Example;
INSERT INTO test (test) VALUES ('abcd');
And have the data in the database be;
abcd0001

Now I do have things setup else where were the default value for the field
is such:
default ('abcd'::text || lpad(text(nextval('test_sequence'::text)), 4,
'0'::text))

But i want the "abcd" or what erver to be added in the insert?

What am I missing to make this happen?

I don't think you can do what you want to do with a column
default. Instead you want to look at the rewrite rules. You can find
information about them here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/i...reaterule.html

If I'm wrong I'm sure someone here will correct me :).

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[Stephan Szabo]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Dev wrote:

Hello all,

I am working on setting up a table that will append a sequence to the end
of the value inserted.
Example;
INSERT INTO test (test) VALUES ('abcd');
And have the data in the database be;
abcd0001

Now I do have things setup else where were the default value for the field
is such:
default ('abcd'::text || lpad(text(nextval('test_sequence'::text)), 4,
'0'::text))

But i want the "abcd" or what erver to be added in the insert?

What am I missing to make this happen?

You don't want to use a default (since that'll be ignored if you actually
pass in a value for the column). You probably want a before trigger that
alters the value that was inserted before the insertion actually happens.
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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 14:57:12 -0400,
Dev <de*@umpa-us.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I am working on setting up a table that will append a sequence to the end
of the value inserted.
Example;
INSERT INTO test (test) VALUES ('abcd');
And have the data in the database be;
abcd0001

Now I do have things setup else where were the default value for the field
is such:
default ('abcd'::text || lpad(text(nextval('test_sequence'::text)), 4,
'0'::text))

But i want the "abcd" or what erver to be added in the insert?

What am I missing to make this happen?

I think you want to use a trigger to do this. The default function only
gets used if you don't supply a value.

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