Re: Inserting Using RowType - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Inserting Using RowType
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Msg-id 25018.1114626958@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Inserting Using RowType  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
>>> INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (ib837.*);
>>
>> Ya know, for some reason I was convinced that wouldn't work, but it
>> does ... certainly a lot cleaner than the hack I just posted ...

> Hmmm...so does it work by design or by accident?  I assume that if
> it were by accident, your response would have been "Yeah, but...."

No, it's by design --- in fact now I remember having made it happen
in 8.0.  But the ol hindbrain was remembering how things Used Ta Be.

            regards, tom lane

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