| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
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| To: | susan(dot)hurst(at)brookhurstdata(dot)com |
| Cc: | "Psql_General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Merge - Insert Select |
| Date: | 2017-10-13 16:43:28 |
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Susan Hurst
<susan(dot)hurst(at)brookhurstdata(dot)com> wrote:
> Does postgres have a MERGE statement ala Oracle?
No.
> I have found examples online for INSERT...ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, but all of
> those examples use VALUES statements, which is not the scenario that I have.
You can use SELECT instead of VALUES with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/ON
CONFLICT DO UPDATE. They don't impose any restriction on the INSERT
statement at all, unlike MERGE, which is fussy about the use of
subqueries.
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Peter Geoghegan
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