Re: MERGE ... RETURNING

From: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MERGE ... RETURNING
Date: 2023-07-06 17:14:31
Message-ID: CABwTF4UOitwEwiPRmoirkZ=NuCmWhUnfN+ypKz_T6rrSCdX95Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 3:39 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Jul-05, Gurjeet Singh wrote:

> > I expected the .out file to have captured the stdout. I'm gradually,
> > and gladly, re-learning bits of the test infrastructure.
> >
> > The DELETE command tag in the output does not feel appropriate for a
> > COPY command that's using MERGE as the source of the data.
>
> You misread this one :-) The COPY output is there, the tag is not. So
> DELETE is the value from pg_merge_action(), and "1 100" correspond to
> the columns in the the sq_target row that was deleted. The command tag
> is presumably MERGE 1.

:-) That makes more sense. It matches my old mental model. Thanks for
clarifying!

Best regards,
Gurjeet
http://Gurje.et

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