| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Anssi Kääriäinen <anssi(dot)kaariainen(at)thl(dot)fi>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT {UPDATE | IGNORE} |
| Date: | 2014-12-23 19:36:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20141223193633.GP3062@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Peter Geoghegan (pg(at)heroku(dot)com) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> >> If you're dead set on having an escape hatch, maybe we should just get
> >> over it and add a way of specifying a unique index by name. As I said,
> >> these under-served use cases are either exceedingly rare or entirely
> >> theoretical.
> >
> > I'm decidedly unenthusiastic about that. People don't expect CREATE
> > INDEX CONCURRENTLY + DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY to break their DML. I
> > think the solution in this case would be a gateway to problems larger
> > than the one we're trying to solve.
>
> I tend to agree. I think we should just live with the fact that not
> every conceivable use case will be covered, at least initially. Then,
> if an appreciable demand for even more flexibility emerges, we can
> revisit this. We already have a syntax that is significantly more
> flexible than the equivalent feature in any other system. Let's not
> lose sight of that.
+1
Thanks,
Stephen
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