On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.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.
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Peter Geoghegan