Re: [HACKERS] MERGE SQL Statement for PG11

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] MERGE SQL Statement for PG11
Date: 2018-01-29 15:12:23
Message-ID: CANP8+jKoE=AXPz+gMdxXgod7UO_C8OGwJ6aD+A4b5nfxLOzQrA@mail.gmail.com
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On 29 January 2018 at 14:55, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> My note was not against MERGE or INSERT ON CONFLICT. If I understand to this
> topic, I agree so these commands should be implemented separately. But if we
> use two commands with some intersection, there can be nice to have
> documentation about recommended use cases. Probably it will be very often
> question.

That is more qualitative assessment of each, which I think I will defer on.

This patch is about implementing the SQL Standard compliant MERGE
command which is widely used in other databases and by various tools.

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