Tom Lane wrote:
>Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
>
>
>>PFC <lists@peufeu.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>MySQL already does this for INSERT :
>>>INSERT INTO x (a,b) VALUES (1,2), (3,4), (5,6)...;
>>>
>>>
>
>
>The above syntax is SQL-standard, so we ought to support it sometime,
>performance benefits or no. I agree it might be tricky to avoid eating
>an unreasonable amount of memory for a very long list in Postgres :-(
>
>Supporting VALUES only in INSERT would be relatively trivial BTW,
>but the spec actually thinks it should be allowed as a <table spec>
>in FROM ...
>
>
>
>
Can we just start with the simple case?
cheers
andrew
