Re: MERGE Specification

On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:

> The following two files specify the behaviour of the MERGE statement
> and
> how it will work in the world of PostgreSQL. In places, this
> supercedes
> my recent commentary on MERGE, particularly with regard to triggers.
>
> Neither of these files is intended for CVS.
>
> The HTML file was generated from SGML source, though the latter is not
> included here for clarity.
>
> The test file shows how I expect a successful test run to look when a
> regression test is executed with a working version of final MERGE
> patch
> applied. It has behavioural comments in it also, to make it slightly
> more readable.
>
> If anybody has any questions, ask them now please, before I begin
> detailed implementation.

"MERGE will not invoke Rules." Does this imply that MERGE cannot be
used on views or that the resulting INSERTs or UPDATEs do not work on
views?

Cheers,
M