On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> My point is that people are not really inclined to use an alias in
> UPDATEs in general when referring to the target. The thing that seems
> special (and worthy of special qualification) is the reference to what
> you call the "incoming data", and what I've called "tuples proposed
> for insertion" (after being affected by any before row triggers).
For simple cases, you might not even bother with CONFLICTING() - you
might find it easier to just repeat the constant in the INSERT and
UPDATE parts of the query.
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Peter Geoghegan
