Re: someone working to add merge? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: someone working to add merge?
Date
Msg-id 200511110909.45366.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to someone working to add merge?  (Jaime Casanova <systemguards@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: someone working to add merge?  (Jaime Casanova <systemguards@gmail.com>)
Re: someone working to add merge?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: someone working to add merge?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Jaime,

> so i suppose we can reuse many of the code breaking the merge in 3
> pieces... for now they are just thougths, i will think more in this
> and try to implement it...
>
> comments? ideas? suggestions?

Funny, we were just discussing this at OpenDBCon.   Seems that you can't do a 
full implementation of MERGE without Predicate Locking (the ability to say 
"lock this table against inserts or updates of any row with key=5").  
However, Peter suggested that we could do a proof-of-concept implementation, 
working out syntax and trigger issues, based on a full table lock and do the 
hard work once it was proved to be feasable.

Peter?

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco


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