Dear Postgres Administrators,
There was a great article of `merge` by Lukas Fittl here:
https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-15-merge-vs-insert-on-conflict
In his article, he highlights one of the severe disadvantages to merge:
The comment that he essentially made is that the downside of ME
either, only when
it actually performs the job of committing the insert, if this fails, then
perform the `on conflict do nothing`. Therefore, due to the original merge
semantics, merge insert doesn't need to follow the same requirements as
normal `insert`, and it doesn't need to *wait* -