On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com> writes: > On 1/14/16, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> It's more than syntactic sugar; you are going to have to invent semantics, >> as well, because it's less than clear what partial-field assignments >> should do. >> >> Assume a table with an int-array column, and consider >> INSERT INTO foo SET arraycol[2] = 7, arraycol[4] = 11;
> Right part is a column name, not an expression. Isn't it?
> You can't now do something like > INSERT INTO foo (arraycol[2], arraycol[4]) VALUES(7, 11);
Hm ... actually, you might want to try that before opining
So what's the problem, then? It seems like a decision has already been made.