On 11/11/05, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Jaime,
>
> > so i suppose we can reuse many of the code breaking the merge in 3
> > pieces... for now they are just thougths, i will think more in this
> > and try to implement it...
> >
> > comments? ideas? suggestions?
>
> Funny, we were just discussing this at OpenDBCon. Seems that you can't do a
> full implementation of MERGE without Predicate Locking (the ability to say
> "lock this table against inserts or updates of any row with key=5").
it isn't what select for update does?
> However, Peter suggested that we could do a proof-of-concept implementation,
> working out syntax and trigger issues, based on a full table lock and do the
> hard work once it was proved to be feasable.
>
> Peter?
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)