Re: [PATCH] Add support for INSERT ... SET syntax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2026-Mar-30, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Well, Suraj has kinda beaten me to it, but he didn't invent this syntax.
> Oracle did <https://oracle-base.com/articles/23/non-positional-insert-into-set-and-insert-into-by-name-clauses-23>
> and I believe there is a proposal to add it to the standard. (Unlike
> Suraj's, my WIP patch also supports the INSERT BY NAME variant.)

Hmm, I don't see any WIP patch from you -- are you talking about this
patch from July 2019?
https://postgr.es/m/CA+A-St+NntBh2EGu3a0xbVxJFzaeEOn=Vn_V84OuhM59_HKarQ@mail.gmail.com

Funnily enough, we have an even older proposal from 2016,
https://postgr.es/m/709e06c0-59c9-ccec-d216-21e38cb5ed61@joh.to

It seems this is quite a popular missing feature, as Marko's patch was
also asked about in February 2019:
https://postgr.es/m/e58dd487-7ed4-3f95-c63c-24200ed768be@berkvens.net

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