On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Marc-Olaf Jaschke <moj@dshare.de> wrote:
Perhaps I misunderstand the discussion but would "INSERT .. ON CONFLICT DO SELECT [FOR ..]" not provide a solution for the following use case?
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That works. But it is a bit inconvenient to write the pseudo update clause.
Right. This is exactly the use case for ON CONFLICT DO SELECT. The "no-op" UPDATE bloats the table unnecessary and just generally results in unnecessary overhead.
