It would be nice if there was a psql option that would warn you if you're about to do any kind of update, delete or insert without doing a BEGIN;

(You could always set autocommit=false, which forces you to explicitly commit or rollback every action, but that has its own baggage)

UPDATEs should require a WHERE clause too.

At which point we could just say all SQL should have a WHERE clause.

I think SELECTs without WHERE clauses are fine

But requiring them is fine too. Even more on Postrges, that has booleans.

FROM, then WHERE, then SELECT

Pipe Syntax In SQL

https://research.google/pubs/sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-the...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877

This is the way.