Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT {UPDATE | IGNORE} - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 09/28/2014 03:40 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Do you really think I could get an entire chapter out of this?

Yes. It might be a short chapter, but once you extract the existing
upsert example from the docs and how why the naïve approach doesn't work
there'll be enough to go on.

People get this wrong a *lot*.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING
http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/10/why-is-upsert-so-complicated/
http://stackoverflow.com/q/17267417/398670
http://stackoverflow.com/q/1109061/398670

I'm happy to help with documenting it.

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