Re: Support UPDATE table SET(*)=...

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > Please find attached a patch which implements support for UPDATE table1
>> > SET(*)=...
>>
>> I presume you haven't read Tom Lane's proposal and discussion about
>> multiple column assignment in UPDATE:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1783.1399054541@sss.pgh.pa.us
>> (Assigning all columns was also discussed there)
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>> And there's a WIP patch:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20930.1402931841@sss.pgh.pa.us
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>>
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> Thanks for the links, but this patch only targets SET(*) case, which, if I
> understand correctly, the patch you mentioned doesn't directly handle (If I
> understand correctly, the target of the two patches is different).
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>
Digging more, I figured that the patch I posted builds on top of Tom's
patch, since it did not add whole row cases.

Regards,

Atri