unordained wrote:

> I'm not seeing this in the thread, perhaps it's only unclear to
> me, but doesn't not inserting a
> value for a column (specifying the list of columns whose values
> are being sent) make the server use
> the DEFAULT value for each missing value, and NULL if no DEFAULT
> exists?

It was mentioned. Preparing ad-hoc inserts for every punctual case is
inefficient. It's like file with lots of commands
INSERT INTO T(...) VALUES(...);
inside a text file that's passed to isql as input.
The point is not what can be done. The point is making it with less code and
in an efficient way.

C.