On 01/29/2018 11:13 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 29 January 2018 at 15:44, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> Uh, if we know we are going to get question on this, the patch had
>> better have an explanation of when to use it. Pushing the problem to
>> later doesn't seem helpful.
>
> What problem are you referring to?
>
> INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE does ...
>
> MERGE allows you to ...
In my reading of Pavel and Bruce, the only 'problem' being suggested
is that the patch hasn't added a bit of documentation somewhere that
lays out the relationship between these two things, more or less as
you just did.
-Chap