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Adding rows to a table with identity column page 3

MySQL

MySQL does not support DEFAULT VALUES clause. You can insert a row with default values into a table by another standard way, using DEFAULT keyword for each table column - VALUES(DEFAULT, DEFAULT, ...). But what about insertion of sequential value of counter into a single auto-increment column?

  1. CREATE TABLE test_Identity (
  2.  id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  3.   PRIMARY KEY  (id)
  4. );
It's very simple. It turns out that intuitive ways, which we unsuccessfully tried to use in the case of SQL Server, will work, namely so: 

  1. INSERT INTO test_Identity VALUES();
or so

  1. INSERT INTO test_Identity VALUES(DEFAULT);

After executing the both of these statements, we'll obtain:

id
1
2

Note that when inserting specific value into auto-increment column (this can be done with ordinary INSERT statement), which will be greater than maximal value among existing ones in a table, the next increment will start from this inserted one. For example:

  1. INSERT INTO test_Identity VALUES(8);
  2. INSERT INTO test_Identity VALUES(DEFAULT);
  3. SELECT * FROM test_Identity;

id
1
2
8
9

PostgreSQL

  1. CREATE TABLE identity_table(id serial PRIMARY KEY);

You can use some of above ways to insert sequential counter's values:

  1. INSERT INTO identity_table DEFAULT VALUES;
  2. INSERT INTO identity_table VALUES(DEFAULT);
  3. INSERT INTO identity_table(id) VALUES(DEFAULT);
  4. SELECT * FROM identity_table;

id
1
2
3

However, if you'll insert a specific value (which is above the maximal value that has been achieved by the counter): 

  1. INSERT INTO identity_table(id) VALUES(5);
and proceed getting auto-incremental values 

  1. INSERT INTO identity_table VALUES(DEFAULT);
then numbering will not be proceeded on the base of maximal value, but from the last one generated:

id
1
2
3
5
4

With so doing, when 5 will be obtained as sequential value, we get error of violation of primary key constraint:

ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "identity_table_pkey"

DETAIL:  Key (id)=(5) already exists.


But if the table has no primary key on auto-increment column, we'll get duplicate values and numbering will be proceeded further. Below is script for illustrating this behaviour.

  1. CREATE TABLE identity_table_wo(id serial);
  2. INSERT INTO identity_table_wo(id) VALUES(DEFAULT);
  3. INSERT INTO identity_table_wo(id) VALUES(2);
  4. INSERT INTO identity_table_wo(id) VALUES(DEFAULT),(DEFAULT);
  5. SELECT * FROM identity_table_wo;

id
1
2
2
3

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