On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> wrote: > SET syntax for INSERT was brought up a few years ago here: > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2c5ef4e30908251010s46d9d566m1da21357891bab3d@mail.gmail.com > > From the discussion it seems that one committer was against, one committer > was not against, and one committer saw something good in the proposal. > Personally, I believe this would be a huge readability improvement to > INSERTs with more than a few columns. I'm willing to put in some work to > make this happen for 9.7, but I'd like to know that I'm not wasting my time.
I'm mildly in favor of this proposal. I think that "-1 PostgreSQL isn't MySQL!" is maybe the lamest reason for not supporting useful syntax that I can think of.
Now I am able to write more correct argument. It is one from basic SQL statement, and for using proprietary syntax should be pretty strong reason.
Probably there is less risk than 7 years ago, but still creating own syntax isn't the best idea. This is syntactic sugar only and different from ANSi SQL or common standard.
