Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you against it just on grounds of cleanliness and ANSI compliance, > or do you see more serious problems in letting it in ?
At this point it seems there are two different things being tossed about. I originally understood Dave to be asking for parens to be allowed around individual target column names, which seems a useless frammish to me. What Bruce has pointed out is that a syntax that lets you assign multiple columns from a single rowsource would be an actual improvement in functionality, or at least in convenience and efficiency. (It would also be a substantial bit of work, which is why I think this isn't what Dave was offering a quick patch to do...) What I'd like to know right now is which interpretation Informix actually implements. I don't like adding nonstandard syntaxes that add no functionality --- but if Informix has done what Bruce is talking about, that's a different matter altogether. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]