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Appears I forgot to update the docs earlier.

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Please note I have no way to test this.  Docbook doesn't like my
cygwin setup.

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Rod Taylor
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Bruce Momjian
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<!--
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml,v 1.17 2002/04/23 02:07:16 tgl Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml,v 1.18 2002/04/24 02:31:30 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
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</refsynopsisdivinfo>
<synopsis>
INSERT INTO <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">column</replaceable> [, ...] ) ]
{ DEFAULT VALUES | VALUES ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">expression</replaceable> [, ...] ) | SELECT <replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable> }
{ DEFAULT VALUES | VALUES ( { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">expression</replaceable> | DEFAULT } [, ...] ) | SELECT <replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable> }
</synopsis>
<refsect2 id="R2-SQL-INSERT-1">
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">DEFAULT</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This column will be filled in by the column DEFAULT clause, or NULL if
a default is not available.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">query</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
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</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
In the third example, we use the DEFAULT values for the date columns
rather than specifying an entry.
<programlisting>
INSERT INTO films VALUES
('UA502','Bananas',105,DEFAULT,'Comedy',INTERVAL '82 minute');
INSERT INTO films (code, title, did, date_prod, kind)
VALUES ('T_601', 'Yojimbo', 106, DEFAULT, 'Drama');
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Insert a single row into table distributors; note that
only column <literal>name</literal> is specified, so the omitted