If you don't like the standard sql implementation, you could use plsql
or any language to make an abstraction layer/wrapper for this
functionality. Just pass everything as a key/value pair, in an array or
hashtable structure, to your abstraction layer/wrapper, and it can cycle
through the data structure to do the insert or update for you.
In very rough psuedo-code, something like
create my_data_structure {
table = employees,
first_name = sally,
last_name = smith,
date_of_birth = 2008-01-01
}
call function mywrapper (my_data_structure)
.....
function cycles through array, and creates an sql string
dynamically
This may have problems with constraints, foreign keys, etc.
Clodoaldo wrote:
2008/2/29, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:17:20PM -0300, Clodoaldo wrote:
> When inserting into a table and there are many columns to be inserted
> it is hard to synchronize columns to values:
<snip>
> Is there some reason for the insert syntax to be the way it is in
> instead of the much easier to get it right Update syntax?:
Because it's what the SQL standard says. If you don't like it I suggest
you take it up with them... But it's a little late to change now I
think.
I know about the standards and I'm not blaming postgresql. I just want
to know if it is worth to bring the the matter to some responsible
group.
Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
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