Re: "SQL" REPLACE SYNTAX

Folks,

You can propose this syntax additon on the pgsql-sql list, which exists
 to discuss these kinds of issues.  However, I will warn you that the
 core developers have already rejected the REPLACE syntax once as an
 unnecessary deviation from the SQL92 standard.

There was a long discussion following that rejection, sometime last
 summer I think, about how one could use triggers or rules to ape this
 functionality on an INSERT statement.  See the pgsql-sql list
 archives.

You can, of course, also write the ANSI committee and propose that
 REPLACE be added to SQL3.  Good luck.

-Josh Berkus

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