On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Marko Tiikkaja <
pgmail@joh.to> writes:
> > Courtesy of me, Christmas comes a bit early this year. I wrote a patch
> > which allows you to add STRICT into PERFORM and INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
> > without specifying an INTO clause.
>
> What is the use-case for this? Won't this result in the word STRICT
> becoming effectively reserved in contexts where it currently is not?
> (IOW, even if the feature is useful, I've got considerable doubts about
> this syntax for it. The INTO clause is an ugly, badly designed kluge
> already --- let's not make another one just like it.)
Yep, the use case for this seems mighty narrow to me.