New addition to the merge sql standard

2023-11-16 Thread Nick DeCoursin
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

Re: New addition to the merge sql standard

2023-11-20 Thread Nick DeCoursin
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* -