On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@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. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
