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Say the original table has DEFAULT nextval('some_sequence'). I'm looking for a way to specify DEFAULT nextval('another_sequence') on a table view/alias so that I can just insert into the alias as usual instead of repeating int_col = nextval('another_sequence') with every insert. In other words, the user/application only needs to be concerned with a table name and not whichever sequence is being used. Is this possible?

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    A view with an instead of trigger comes to mind
    – user1822
    Jul 31, 2019 at 5:38
  • Can you use a function to insert new values instead of an INSERT sentence?
    – McNets
    Jul 31, 2019 at 7:14

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Found a clean solution thanks to a_horse_with_no_name for the idea and the syntax example set in this answer

CREATE VIEW tbl_view AS
    SELECT * FROM tbl;

ALTER TABLE tbl_view ALTER int_col SET DEFAULT nextval('another_sequence');
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    Cool. I didn't know you can have defaults on view columns.
    – user1822
    Aug 1, 2019 at 5:41

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