Re: ANSI Compliant Inserts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ANSI Compliant Inserts
Date: 2002-04-15 03:26:25
Message-ID: 6412.1018841185@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> In general I'm suspicious of rejecting cases we used to accept for
>> no good reason other than that it's not in the spec. There is a LOT
>> of Postgres behavior that's not in the spec.

> TODO has:
> o Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... VALUES, per ANSI

Where's the discussion that's the basis of that entry? I don't recall
any existing consensus on this (though maybe I forgot).

There are a fair number of things in the TODO list that you put there
because you liked 'em, but that doesn't mean everyone else agrees.
I certainly will not accept "once it's on the TODO list it cannot be
questioned"...

regards, tom lane

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