Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>, Boxuan Zhai <bxzhai2010(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid
Date: 2011-01-03 16:06:15
Message-ID: 4D21F3F7.4000001@dunslane.net
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On 01/03/2011 10:58 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> In general, I also thought/expected to have some kind of UPSERT type
>> capability with our initial MERGE support, even if it requires a big
>> lock and won't operate concurrently, etc.
>
>
> You can of course LOCK TABLE as a work-around, if that's what you want.

I think we need to state this in large red letters in the docs, if
that's the requirement.

cheers

andrew

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