[Dbix-class] creating a row that's empty but for an auto-incremented key?

[John Siracusa]

On 7/8/06 11:22 AM, Ash Berlin wrote:
> John Siracusa wrote:
>> Another alternative is:
>> 
>>     INSERT INTO foo (anycol) VALUES (DEFAULT);
>> 
>> That works in MySQL and Postgres, where anycol is literally any column in
>> the table.
>> 
>> That said, so far, I haven't found a syntax that works "everywhere."  This
>> type of thing has to be constructed on a case-by-case basis for each db.
> 
> To do that in DBIx:
> 
> $rs->create({ anycol => \'DEFAULT' });
> 
> But still not portable

When I said "constructed on a case-by-case basis," I meant by the library,
not the user.  So you'd do this:

    $rs->create({});

and it'd Do The Right Thing for whatever db $rs is connected to.

(or $rs->create(), if that's not too scary for some people :)
-John