"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/5/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> BTW, it occurs to me to wonder whether we've picked a good choice >> of syntax. I don't remember where the suggestion to use "RETURNING" >> came from (did we borrow it from another DBMS?).
> Oracle. DB2 uses something similar to SELECT * FROM (UPDATE tbl SET ... ); Oh, okay. >> The simplest alternative that comes to mind is to use RETURNS instead >> I don't have a strong feeling either way, but now is the time to >> decide. > I don't care either way, RETURNS is fine I guess. Well, if the syntax is compatible with Oracle as-is, that's probably a sufficient reason to stick with it. It's not like we haven't got any other non-spec reserved words ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly