Insert..returning (was Re: Re: postgres TODO)

At 00:21 12/07/00 +1000, Philip Warner wrote:
>
>Well, not wanting to sound too much like a broken record, 
>
>    insert...returning... 
>
>would seem to fix the problem.
>
>Is there some obvious (to anyone who knows something about pg internals)
>reason why this is *not* a good idea?
>

Putting this another way, does anyone object to this being implemented, *at
least* in the case of single row updates?

Secondly, can anyone suggest likely problems that would occur in a naieve
'do a select after an insert' or 'keep a list of affected oids' approach?


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