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From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES]
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In response to Re: Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re: [PATCHES] 8.2 features?)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What I'm inclined to do for 8.2 is to disallow OLD/NEW references in
> multi-element VALUES clauses; the feature is still tremendously useful
> without that.

Given the timing, this sounds like a reasonable approach. I agree that 
the feature has lots of interesting uses -- I'd hate to see us lose 
that. Disallowing OLD/NEW references doesn't contradict the spec in any 
way AFAIK either.

Joe

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