On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-02 19:06:02 +0200, Joel Jacobson wrote:
>> But what do you think about,
>> STRICT UPDATE ...?
>
> I quite dislike it. An UPDATE isn't less 'strict' (whatever that means)
> if updates more than one row. There's some sense in the way it's used
> for INTO because it's referring to the INTO. And it's much more obvious
> what it could mean there.
For those who are familiar with the "INTO STRICT" syntax for SELECT,
I think they will also understand the meaning with UPDATE,
and maybe it could also be considered a plus not having to invent new keywords,
if we can use the ones we already have for other commands.
