There are obviously workarounds for this, but I'm wondering why the following query shouldn't work. It seems like it should. With MVCC already present on the back-end, I can't see any reason other than additional parsing routines that this couldn't work:
INSERT INTO old_login_id_to_new_account_id(new_account_id, old_login_id) INSERT INTO accounts(id, username, password_hash, email) SELECT DEFAULT, username, password_hash, email FROM logins_old RETURNING id,
logins_old.id;
Anyway, I'm sure there are more important features for Postgres (like upserts, unique indexes on GIN, Gist and hash, fixed arrays, compact storage of enum arrays as bitfields, etc.) I just thought it was an interesting idea.
