Re: [HACKERS] Simplified VALUES parameters

2014-02-26 Thread David Johnston
Leon Smith wrote > Hi, I'm the maintainer and a primary author of a postgresql client > library > for Haskell, called postgresql-simple, and I recently investigated > improving support for VALUES expressions in this library. As a result, > I'd > like to suggest two changes to postgresql: > > 1

Re: [HACKERS] Simplified VALUES parameters

2014-02-26 Thread Leon Smith
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > And thank you for writing that driver! > You are welcome! I have no opinion about your request for VALUES() stuff, though. It > looks fairly complex as far as grammar and libpq is concerned. > Actually, my suggestions wouldn't necessarily

Re: [HACKERS] Simplified VALUES parameters

2014-02-26 Thread Josh Berkus
On 02/26/2014 10:47 AM, Leon Smith wrote: > Hi, I'm the maintainer and a primary author of a postgresql client library > for Haskell, called postgresql-simple, and I recently investigated > improving support for VALUES expressions in this library. As a result, I'd > like to suggest two changes

[HACKERS] Simplified VALUES parameters

2014-02-26 Thread Leon Smith
Hi, I'm the maintainer and a primary author of a postgresql client library for Haskell, called postgresql-simple, and I recently investigated improving support for VALUES expressions in this library. As a result, I'd like to suggest two changes to postgresql: 1. Allow type specifications ins