On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:36 AM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> This example exemplifies the poorness of the proposed wording, IMO:
>
>
> [...]
> SET dname = EXCLUDED.dname || ' (formerly ' || TARGET.dname || ')'
>
> NEW.dname || '(formerly ' || OLD.dname || ')' reads perfectly well.
>
> Yes, this is an isolated example...but am I missing the fact that there is a
> third tuple that needs to be referenced?
>
> If there are only two the choices of NEW and OLD seem to be both easily
> learned and readable.
Whatever Andres and/or Heikki want is what I'll agree to. Honestly, I
just don't care anymore.
--
Peter Geoghegan
