| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Support UPDATE table SET(*)=... |
| Date: | 2015-04-08 16:33:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20150408163315.GS4369@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom> Right, but we should be trying to move in that direction. I see
> Tom> your point though that (*) is more notationally consistent with
> Tom> that case. Maybe we should be looking at trying to implement T641
> Tom> in full and then including (*) as a special case of that.
>
> I would have liked to have done that, but that would have raised the
> complexity of the project from "Atri can take a stab at this one with
> negligible supervision" to "Andrew will have to spend more time than he
> has conveniently available staring at the raw parser to try and make it
> work".
Not to mention that, at this stage, we should be looking at reducing the
scope of patches in commitfest rather than enlarge it.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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