On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.buro...@gmail.com> writes: > > On 1/14/16, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> It's more than syntactic sugar; you are going to have to invent > semantics, > >> as well, because it's less than clear what partial-field assignments > >> should do. > >> > >> Assume a table with an int-array column, and consider > >> INSERT INTO foo SET arraycol[2] = 7, arraycol[4] = 11; > > > Right part is a column name, not an expression. Isn't it? > > You can't now do something like > > INSERT INTO foo (arraycol[2], arraycol[4]) VALUES(7, 11); > > Hm ... actually, you might want to try that before opining > So what's the problem, then? It seems like a decision has already been made. David J.
