Error Conditions - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

Using the DEFAULT function can result in an error when any of the following conditions are true:

• The column name is omitted and Vantage cannot derive the column context
• The DEFAULT function appears in a partitioning expression for defining PPIs
• The column name is omitted and the DEFAULT function appears in an expression that does not support the DEFAULT function without a column name
• The DEFAULT function appears in an expression for which the result type is incompatible

  For example, consider the following table definition:

     CREATE TABLE Parts_Table
        (Part_Code   INTEGER DEFAULT 9999
        ,Part_Name   CHAR(20)
     );

  The following statement results in an error because the result type of the DEFAULT function is not compatible with the column to which the result is being compared:

     SELECT * FROM Parts_Table WHERE Part_Name = DEFAULT(Part_Code);