Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
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> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Jules Bean wrote:
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> > Is there any simple way for Pg to combine inserts into one bulk?
> > Specifically, their effect on the index files. It has always seemed
> > to me to be one of the (many) glaring flaws in SQL that the INSERT
> > statement only takes one row at a time.
>
> One of MySQL's little syntax abuses allows:
>
> INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..);
Wouldn't....
INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..); INSERT INTO tab VALUES (val1, ..); INSERT
INTO tab (val2, ..);
also avoid a database round trip??