create table t1 (a int default 100, b int, c varchar(60));
# we can do something like this
load data infile '../../std_data/rpl_loaddata.dat' into table t1 (a, @b) set b=@b+10, c=concat("b=",@b);
select * from t1;
truncate table t1;
# we can use filled fields in expressions
# we also assigning NULL value to field with non-NULL default here
load data infile '../../std_data/rpl_loaddata.dat' into table t1 (a, @b) set c= if(a is null,"oops",a);
select * from t1;
truncate table t1;
# we even can use variables in set clause, and missed columns will be set
# with default values
set @c:=123;
load data infile '../../std_data/rpl_loaddata.dat' into table t1 (@a, b) set c= if(@a is null,@c,b);
select * from t1;
# let us test side-effect of such load
load data infile '../../std_data/rpl_loaddata.dat' into table t1 (@a, @b);
select * from t1;
select @a, @b;
truncate table t1;
# now going to test fixed field-row file format
load data infile '../../std_data/loaddata5.dat' into table t1 fields terminated by '' enclosed by '' (a, b) set c="Wow";
select * from t1;
truncate table t1;
# this also should work
load data infile '../../std_data/loaddata5.dat' into table t1 fields terminated by '' enclosed by '' (a, b) set c=concat(a,"+",b,"+",@c,"+",b,"+",if(c is null,"NIL",c));
select * from t1;
# and this should bark
--error 1409
load data infile '../../std_data/loaddata5.dat' into table t1 fields terminated by '' enclosed by '' (a, @b);