2016-01-14 19:51 GMT+01:00 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>: > 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. >
Now I am able to write more correct argument. It is one from basic SQL statement, and for using proprietary syntax should be pretty strong reason. Probably there is less risk than 7 years ago, but still creating own syntax isn't the best idea. This is syntactic sugar only and different from ANSi SQL or common standard. Regards Pavel > > -- > 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 >
