Hi,
SET syntax for INSERT was brought up a few years ago here:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2c5ef4e30908251010s46d9d566m1da21357891bab3d@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.
What do we think?
.m