On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:31:21AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> about. I originally understood Dave to be asking for parens to be
> allowed around individual target column names, which seems a useless
> frammish to me. What Bruce has pointed out is that a syntax that lets
> you assign multiple columns from a single rowsource would be an actual
> improvement in functionality, or at least in convenience and efficiency.
> (It would also be a substantial bit of work, which is why I think this
> isn't what Dave was offering a quick patch to do...) What I'd like to
> know right now is which interpretation Informix actually implements.
Informix syntax is listed on
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/visionary/infoshelf/sqls/01start.fm.html#156200
It's more than just parens IMO. :-)
Michael
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