On 2015-12-21 8:25 AM, Petite Abeille wrote: >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 4:08 AM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net> >> wrote: >> >> If you want that feature, instead do it the better way that Postgres 9.5 >> did, which is as an extension to the INSERT statement in the form "ON >> CONFLICT DO UPDATE/IGNORE?. > > Please, enough of the comic act :P > > MERGE it is.
Comic act? Do you consider the MERGE defined in the SQL standard to be a better designed feature than Postgres' alternative, or do you prefer the former soley because it is in the SQL standard? I recall that Postgres went with their brand-new alternative because it was a better design, more useable in practice; both simpler and more powerful, easier to express the user's intent and not have arbitrary limitations. -- Darren Duncan
