Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to avoid replicating the list of fields and use instead something like (new.*) = (excluded.*) as one could do in a trigger? (that would also imply an (id = excluded.id but it seems harmless).
This is certainly something that I've seen requests for before. I tend to think that using such a feature would be a bit like using "SELECT *" in production: something that provides an immediate convenience, but creates unforeseen problems. As an example, imagine if someone adds an "inserted_at" column, which has "now()" as its default value. Today, a user can be pretty confident that no existing or future query is going to change that itself, because in order for that to happen the query would have to be written with the explicit intention of updating "inserted_at". That property would go away with the feature you describe. Subtleties like this could easily be missed. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
