Re: TODO : Multiple inserts in a single statement

Tom Lane wrote:

>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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>>Nick Barr wrote:
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>>>Would anyone have any objections if I started to look at the following
>>>TODO item?
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>>>* Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
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>>>
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>>Sounds good.  Please read the developers FAQ for the suggested process.
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>Also please read the SQL spec.  I recall having looked at this once
>with the idea that it should be an easy Sunday-afternoon hack, and
>discovering that making it do what the spec envisions was harder than
>I thought.  I forget now just what the issues were, but I remember
>there's more there than meets the eye.  (Type coercion might have been
>part of it ... don't recall for sure ...)
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>            regards, tom lane
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Cheers guys. Reading every piece of documentation I can find (isn't
Google marvellous). Will report back when I have looked at the code a
bit more.

Nick