| From: | Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues |
| Date: | 2015-04-28 14:53:58 |
| Message-ID: | 553F9F06.80300@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 28/04/15 16:44, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-04-28 10:40:10 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
>>> On 2015-04-28 16:36:28 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>> I am also very sure that every time I'll write this statement I will have to
>>>> look into manual for the names of TARGET and EXCLUDED because they don't
>>>> seem intuitive to me at all (especially the EXCLUDED).
>>>
>>> Same here. I don't understand why 'CONFLICTING' would be more ambiguous
>>> than EXCLUDED (as Peter argued earlier). Especially given that the whole
>>> syntax is called ON CONFLICT.
>>
>> Any way we can alias it? Both of those strike me as annoyingly long and
>> if we could allow an alias then people can do whatever they want...
>>
>> No, I haven't got any suggestion on how to do that. :)
>>
>> It's also something we can probably improve on in the future...
>
> I earlier suggested NEW/OLD. I still think that's not too bad as I don't
> buy the argument that they're too associated with rules.
>
Hmm, I would never think of rules when talking about NEW/OLD, the
association I have is with triggers.
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