Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11
Date: 2017-11-02 18:49:18
Message-ID: CANP8+jJtsL3fYgiRWYB5vM9g98iFNHgBeCtPufUkgVShpEFvvg@mail.gmail.com
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On 1 November 2017 at 18:20, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:

> In Postgres, you can avoid duplicate violations with MERGE by using a
> higher isolation level (these days, those are turned into a
> serialization error at higher isolation levels when no duplicate is
> visible to the xact's snapshot).

So if I understand you correctly, in your view MERGE should just fail
with an ERROR if it runs concurrently with other DML?

i.e. if a race condition between the query and an INSERT runs
concurrently with another INSERT

We have no interest in making that work?

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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