Re: MERGE and parsing with prepared statements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: MERGE and parsing with prepared statements
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Msg-id 20220715184019.rour3mk33ngc76y6@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: MERGE and parsing with prepared statements  (Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>)
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On 2022-Jul-15, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:25:35AM +0200, Matthias van de Meent wrote:

> Thanks for looking into it.

Definitely!  Thanks, Matthias.

> I see now that the same thing can happen with "ON CONFLICT" if used with a
> subselect.
> 
> PREPARE p AS INSERT INTO t SELECT a FROM (SELECT $1 AS a)a
>      ON CONFLICT (i) DO UPDATE SET i=excluded.i;
> ERROR:  column "i" is of type integer but expression is of type text

Right, I didn't think that MERGE was doing anything peculiar in this
respect.

> It seems a bit odd that it's impossible to use merge with prepared statements
> without specifically casting the source types (which I did now to continue my
> experiment).

I have no comments on this.  Maybe it can be improved, but I don't know
how.

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/



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