Re: [PATCHES] Best practices: MERGE

Is that broken?

http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/build.html

Chris

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.
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> David Fetter wrote:
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>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>>>>Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
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>>>No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
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>>>You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
>>>unique_violation.
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>>Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
>>Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
>>enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
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>>Cheers,
>>D
>>-- 
>>David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
>>phone: +1 510 893 6100   mobile: +1 415 235 3778
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>>Remember to vote!
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>>TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
>>      joining column's datatypes do not match
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