Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE and logical decoding

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE and logical decoding
Date: 2015-02-25 23:40:43
Message-ID: 54EE5D7B.2050802@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/19/15 4:11 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Thoughts? Can't say that I've given conflict resolution for
>> >multi-master systems a great deal of thought before now, so I might be
>> >quite off the mark here.
> I don't think conflict resolution actually plays a role here. This is
> about consistency inside a single system, not consistency across
> systems.

Isn't it possible that a multi-master resolution algo would want to know
that something was an UPSERT though? ISTM handling that differently than
a plain INSERT/UPDATE is something you might well want to do.

For example, if you're using last-wins conflict resolution and UPSERTs
on two nodes overlap, wouldn't you want to know that the second UPSERT
was an UPSERT and not a plain INSERT?
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting
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