Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues
Date: 2015-04-28 14:38:38
Message-ID: 20150428143838.GD19123@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-04-28 16:36:28 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> I am also very sure that every time I'll write this statement I will have to
> look into manual for the names of TARGET and EXCLUDED because they don't
> seem intuitive to me at all (especially the EXCLUDED).

Same here. I don't understand why 'CONFLICTING' would be more ambiguous
than EXCLUDED (as Peter argued earlier). Especially given that the whole
syntax is called ON CONFLICT.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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