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

Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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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