Re: SET syntax in INSERT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: SET syntax in INSERT
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Msg-id 162867790908251036v4f85f012pde17c9b368654367@mail.gmail.com
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In response to SET syntax in INSERT  (Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com>)
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Re: SET syntax in INSERT
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2009/8/25 Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com>:
> Given the recent discussion of "DELETE syntax on JOINS"  I thought it
> might be interesting to bring a bit MySQL syntax that is in somewhat
> widespread use, generally create somewhat cleaner code and I imagine
> would not break much if implemented.
>
> MySQL allows INSERTs of the form:
>
> INSERT INTO t SET
> col1='val1',
> col2='va21',
> col3='val3',
> col4='val4',
> col5='val5',
> col6='val6',
> col7='val7',
> col8='val8',
> col9='val9',
> col10='val10',
> col11='val11',
> col12='val12',
> col13='val13',
> col14='val14',
> col15='val15';
>
> Which I think sometimes compares very favorably
> INSERT INTO t
> (col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7,col8,col9,col10,col11,col12,col13,col14,col15)
> VALUES
> ('val1','val2','val3','val4','val5','val6','val7','val8','val9','val10','val11','val12','val13','val14','val15')
>
> Probably a pipe dream...

-1 PostgreSQL isn't MySQL!

Regards
Pavel Stehule


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