Re: MERGE Specification

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 00:24 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:38 -0400, A.M. wrote:
> 
> > "MERGE will not invoke Rules." Does this imply that MERGE cannot be  
> > used on views or that the resulting INSERTs or UPDATEs do not work on  
> > views?
> 
> Yes, that's right. Just like COPY. That seems fine to me because you're
> likely to be doing a MERGE immediately after a COPY anyway, so the
> restriction just continues.

May be the bulk data merging variant of MERGE to be used after initial
COPY should be a variant of COPY with special keyword(s) instead of
MERGE ?

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Hannu