insert into X select a.keyA, a.keyB, a.colA, a.colB from Y a left join X b using (keyA, keyB) where b.keyA is NULL and b.keyB is NULL;
With the appropriate indexes, this is pretty fast but I think a merge would be much faster.
Problem is it's subject to race conditions if another process is inserting stuff at the same time...
Chris
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