Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid
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In response to Re: Re: new patch of MERGE (merge_204) & a question about duplicated ctid  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On 01/03/2011 10:58 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> In general, I also thought/expected to have some kind of UPSERT type
>> capability with our initial MERGE support, even if it requires a big
>> lock and won't operate concurrently, etc.
>
>
> You can of course LOCK TABLE as a work-around, if that's what you want.

I think we need to state this in large red letters in the docs, if 
that's the requirement.

cheers

andrew


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