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Re: SELECT INTO deprecation

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-16T17:07:08Z
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On 2020-12-15 23:13, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Do we really want to carry around confusing syntax for compatibility?  I
> doubt we would ever add INTO now, even for compatibility.

Right, we would very likely not add it now.  But it doesn't seem to 
cause a lot of ongoing maintenance burden, so if there is a use case, 
it's not unreasonable to keep it around.  I have no other motive here, I 
was just curious.

Commits

  1. doc: Clarify status of SELECT INTO on reference page

  2. Remove gratuitous uses of deprecated SELECT INTO