On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 12:29 +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote: > > Would it be useful to have just the action? Perhaps "WITH ACTION"? > > My idea is that this would return an enum of INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE > > (so is "action" the right word?). It seems to me in many situations > > I would be more likely to care about which of these 3 happened > > rather than the exact clause that applied. This isn't necessarily > > meant to be instead of your suggestion because I can imagine > > wanting to know the exact clause, just an alternative that might > > suffice in many situations. Using it would also avoid problems > > arising from editing the query in a way which changes the numbers > > of the clauses. > > > > Hmm, perhaps that's something that can be added as well. Both use > cases seem useful.
Can you expand a bit on the use cases for identifying individual WHEN clauses? I see that it offers a new capability beyond just the action type, but I'm having trouble thinking of real use cases. Regards, Jeff Davis