Where in with multiple values in postgres

Postgres has a record type that you can use with a comma seperated list of values inside of parenthesis like this:

> SELECT pg_typeof((1, 2));

 pg_typeof
-----------
 record
(1 row)

What is also interesting is that you can compare records:

> select (1, 2) = (1, 2);

 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 row)

And additionally, a select statement results in a record:

> select (1, 2) = (select 1, 2);

 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 row)

What this allows you to do is to create a where statement where the expression can check to see that 2 or more values are contained in the results of a subquery:

> select true where (1, 2) in (
  select x, y
  from
    generate_series(1, 2) x,
    generate_series(1, 2) y
);

 bool
------
 t
(1 row)

This is useful when you declare composite keys for your tables.