| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT {UPDATE | IGNORE} |
| Date: | 2014-09-28 21:22:52 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZTK=XBqVrnKkh3O+tNzY2HGNjALtJTKXfOvBR3jihoE6w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> There was informal meeting of this at the dev meeting a in 2012.
I mean: There was informal agreement that as long as we're working on
a feature that makes useful, UPSERT-like guarantees, we shouldn't use
the MERGE syntax. MERGE clearly benefits (in ways only relevant to the
use-case it targets) from having the leeway to not care about what
someone with the UPSERT use-case would call race conditions.
--
Peter Geoghegan
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