Re: [PATCHES] extension for sql update

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> UPDATE mytab SET (foo, bar, baz) =
> >> (SELECT alpha, beta, gamma FROM othertab WHERE key = mytab.key);
>
> > That UPDATE example is interesting because I remember when using
> > Informix that I had to do a separate SELECT statement for each UPDATE
> > column I wanted to update.  I didn't realize that you could group
> > columns and assign them from a single select --- clearly that is a
> > powerful syntax we should support some day.
>
> No question.  The decision at hand is whether we want to look like
> we support it, when we don't yet.  I'd vote not, because I think the
> main use-case for the row-on-the-left syntax is exactly this, and
> so I fear people will just get frustrated if they see it in the
> syntax synopsis and try to use it.

Agreed.  My guess is that a soluion that allows SELECT to return
multiple values is going to be in another area of the code, and will
require us to remove this code once that is done.

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