Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: hlinnaka <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues
Date: 2015-05-04 21:16:42
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSmAAZCG+J3pwaSiPvxwfpGRMxq-jkj=pZWgHu0irNGmg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> The ability to specify a constraint by name hasn't been implemented, but
> that would read quite naturally as:
>
> INSERT INTO mytable ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT my_constraint UPDATE ...

For the record, I have made this change on Github (Andres and I have
been doing a lot of clean-up. I point this change in particular out
because it's a behavioral change). The INSERT documentation has been
updated to reflect this, and includes an example. This copy of the
documentation is current:

http://postgres-benchmarks.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/on-conflict-docs/sql-insert.html

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Peter Geoghegan

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