Re: MERGE Specification - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From A.M.
Subject Re: MERGE Specification
Date
Msg-id 17C14E5B-A7F0-435A-9059-272731E5E474@themactionfaction.com
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In response to MERGE Specification  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: MERGE Specification  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:

> The following two files specify the behaviour of the MERGE statement  
> and
> how it will work in the world of PostgreSQL. In places, this  
> supercedes
> my recent commentary on MERGE, particularly with regard to triggers.
>
> Neither of these files is intended for CVS.
>
> The HTML file was generated from SGML source, though the latter is not
> included here for clarity.
>
> The test file shows how I expect a successful test run to look when a
> regression test is executed with a working version of final MERGE  
> patch
> applied. It has behavioural comments in it also, to make it slightly
> more readable.
>
> If anybody has any questions, ask them now please, before I begin
> detailed implementation.


"MERGE will not invoke Rules." Does this imply that MERGE cannot be  
used on views or that the resulting INSERTs or UPDATEs do not work on  
views?

Cheers,
M


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