Just for reference, neither DB2 nor Oracle support passing the full list of
values as a single '?' parameter. In both cases you have to specify several ?
parameters (or :host variables) for each of the expected values.
Although I find this an annoying limitation, the fact remains that no
significant DBMS does what is being asked here.
PostgreSQL currently does not even accept '?' in the list. I have asked about
the possibility to support something in there. But even if the backend decides
to accept the full list it would be a PostgreSQL-only feature/enhancement and
not portable.
I feel very comfortable implementing standards but not at extending them. If
one day the standard body decides to implement it in a way different from the
way you did you end up with backward compatibility problems. Not to mention
that you end up tricking people into using some non-standard exception and
preventing them to use another DBMS. Although I see no reason to use anything
but PostgreSQL, this looks somewhat like M$ tactics ;-)
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Fernando Nasser
Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com
2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9
