On 19 May 2015 at 23:24, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
That's certainly something we talked about. It could probably be done with some kind of magical expression. I have to wonder how many of the people that are sure that they need this really do, though. Is it really natural to care about this distinction with idiomatic usage?
Thanks everyone for responding promptly.
Not sure if I can be authoritative for many, but for me, the need emanates from having to move an ETL off MSSQL Server, which supports OUTPUT $action (similar to RETURNING * in Postgres) where $action is the per-row status (INSERT / UPDATE).
My use-case is to create an extra row for all UPDATEd rows (only), which is implemented in MSSQL by enveloping the MERGE with an INSERT (MERGE ... OUTPUT $action) WHERE $action = 'UPDATE'.
Am still to test, but looks like Thom's reply earlier could take care of my use-case, so we may need more people requesting this magic field, with a valid use-case.
