On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:26 -0800, Sorin Schwimmer wrote:
> The front-end application can do it easy in a
> loop of a sort, but on remote servers (and that's the
> norm these days) it creates unnecessary network
> traffic.
You can avoid this easily via a stored procedure.
> My suggestion is to allow INSERT to do it REPEAT x.
We generally try to avoid non-standard extensions to SQL to accomplish
things that can be comfortably expressed in standard SQL, or via the
existing Postgres constructs (e.g. PL/PgSQL stored procedures).
-Neil
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