On 17/07/10 04:26, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Hmm. > For years I have been advocating to always use fully qualified column > lists in INSERTs (for clarity and stability) > And now I learn it's slower when I do so :( If you're not doing hundreds of thousands of identical ones at a time, it's still very much a good idea. The costs of parsing and transmission are usually pretty insignificant, and the readability/maintenance benefits are huge. It's only when dealing with bulk loading that this sort of thing starts to be worth thinking about. -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general