Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES]

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES]
Date: 2006-08-01 20:41:28
Message-ID: 44CFBC78.2020508@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What I'm inclined to do for 8.2 is to disallow OLD/NEW references in
> multi-element VALUES clauses; the feature is still tremendously useful
> without that.

Given the timing, this sounds like a reasonable approach. I agree that
the feature has lots of interesting uses -- I'd hate to see us lose
that. Disallowing OLD/NEW references doesn't contradict the spec in any
way AFAIK either.

Joe

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