On 2015-04-23 15:52:40 +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote: > When I set out I was really only hoping to express a preference as a user; > on balance I would really rather not have DO IGNORE, if it were possible to > avoid, because it's really ugly, but DO UPDATE/DO NOTHING I could just > about cope with (and means you don't need to add IGNORE as a keyword, > win!), although it still mildly pains me that there's an additional > unnecessary word.
Yea, DO NOTHING is a good alternative. And I do like we're adding one keyword less (which is also good for the parser's size/performance). DO {UPDATE ... | NOTHING | LOCK} doesn't sound too bad to me (yes, LOCK doesn't exist yet, except by writing UPDATE .. WHERE false ;)). Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers