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Re: MERGE Specification

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "A.M." <agentm@themactionfaction.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-04-22T01:57:20Z
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Simon Riggs wrote:

> Unrelated to rule processing, you did read the bit about MERGE and race
> conditions? ISTM that MERGE as it stands isn't very useful for anything
> other than large data loads since its going to cause problems if used
> concurrently.

But that's how the committee designed it, yes?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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