On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM Gareth Palmer <gareth(at)internetnz(dot)net(dot)nz>
wrote:
> Attached is a patch that adds the option of using SET clause to specify
> the columns and values in an INSERT statement in the same manner as that
> of an UPDATE statement.
>
Cool! Thanks for working on this, I'd love to see the syntax in PG.
There was a brief discussion regarding INSERT SET on pgsql-hackers in late
> August 2009 [1].
>
There was also at least one slightly more recent adventure:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/709e06c0-59c9-ccec-d216-21e38cb5ed61%40joh.to
You might want to check that thread too, in case any of the criticism there
applies to this patch as well.
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