Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues
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In response to Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT syntax issues  (Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I am also very sure that every time I'll write this statement I will have to
> look into manual for the names of TARGET and EXCLUDED because they don't
> seem intuitive to me at all (especially the EXCLUDED).

According to wordcount.org, the word "exclude" is ranked # 5796 in the
English language in terms of frequency of use. It's in the vocabulary
of 6 year olds.

I don't know why you find it counter-intuitive, since it perfectly
describes the purpose of the tuple.
-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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