Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:13:19PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > My personal conjecture:
> > >
> > > The "extended insert" is not on the Postgres TODO list because:
> > > a) It's not ANSI SQL standard.
> > > b) We have COPY, which is better.
> >
> > Unfortunately that statement is mostly wrong:
> > - It is on the TODO list.
> > - It is standard.
> > - It is better than COPY.
>
> Why is it better than COPY?
Because you can't insert 1+1 using COPY. There are nontrivial
extensions of that example, of course.
