On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Marko Tiikkaja <ma...@joh.to> wrote: > SET syntax for INSERT was brought up a few years ago here: > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2c5ef4e30908251010s46d9d566m1da21357891ba...@mail.gmail.com > > From the discussion it seems that one committer was against, one committer > was not against, and one committer saw something good in the proposal. > Personally, I believe this would be a huge readability improvement to > INSERTs with more than a few columns. I'm willing to put in some work to > make this happen for 9.7, but I'd like to know that I'm not wasting my time.
I'm mildly in favor of this proposal. I think that "-1 PostgreSQL isn't MySQL!" is maybe the lamest reason for not supporting useful syntax that I can think of. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
