Re: BUG #1948: Enhancement Request - INSERT syntax

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:49:58PM +0100, test_autoincrement wrote:
> This is not user-friendly, and I think the SQL committee made a big mistake
> in defining totally different structures for the INSERT and UPDATE
> statements.
Matter of opinion.

> MySQL already offers this option, so why can't you?

MySQL also thinks it's OK to truncate data. Comparing PostgreSQL to them
isn't a very good way to go about getting a feature added.

Ultimately, I highly doubt that anyone on -hackers has any interest in
this, so it's very unlikely to get done unless you do it yourself (or
pay someone to do it). Even then I suspect -hackers might reject it.
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