Re: MERGE command for inheritance

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Boxuan Zhai <bxzhai2010(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MERGE command for inheritance
Date: 2010-08-11 15:03:13
Message-ID: 5613.1281538993@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:25 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I concur that Boxuan's suggested "difficult" approach seems like the
>> right one.

> Right, but you've completely ignored my proposal: lets do this in two
> pieces. Get what we have now ready to commit, then add support for
> partitioning later, as a second project.

Do we really think this is anywhere near committable now?

If it's committable in every other respect, I could see just having it
throw a NOT_IMPLEMENTED error when the target table has children.
I thought we were still a very long way from that though.

regards, tom lane

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