| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sorin Schwimmer <sxn02(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New feature proposal |
| Date: | 2007-01-24 23:35:39 |
| Message-ID: | 1169681739.12522.4.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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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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