Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
David Fetter
Date:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
>
> No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
>
> You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
> unique_violation.

Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.

Cheers,
D
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Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.

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David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
> >
> > No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
> >
> > You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
> > unique_violation.
>
> Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
> Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
> enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
>
> Cheers,
> D
> --
> David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
> phone: +1 510 893 6100   mobile: +1 415 235 3778
>
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Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
Is that broken?

http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/build.html

Chris

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>
>>>>Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
>>>
>>>No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
>>>
>>>You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
>>>unique_violation.
>>
>>Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
>>Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
>>enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>D
>>--
>>David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
>>phone: +1 510 893 6100   mobile: +1 415 235 3778
>>
>>Remember to vote!
>
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Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Thanks, fixed.

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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Is that broken?
>
> http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/build.html
>
> Chris
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > David Fetter wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >>
> >>>>Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
> >>>
> >>>No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
> >>>
> >>>You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
> >>>unique_violation.
> >>
> >>Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
> >>Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
> >>enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>D
> >>--
> >>David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
> >>phone: +1 510 893 6100   mobile: +1 415 235 3778
> >>
> >>Remember to vote!
> >
> >
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> >>      joining column's datatypes do not match
> >
> >
>

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Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
David Fetter
Date:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Thanks, fixed.

Could you apply this to the 8.0 docs, too?  The exception handling
works in 8.0, and I know at least two places where it's in production
:)

Cheers,
D
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Is that broken?
> >
> > http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/build.html
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > David Fetter wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>>Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
> > >>>
> > >>>No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
> > >>>
> > >>>You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
> > >>>unique_violation.
> > >>
> > >>Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
> > >>Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
> > >>enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
> > >>
> > >>Cheers,
> > >>D
> > >>--
> > >>David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
> > >>phone: +1 510 893 6100   mobile: +1 415 235 3778
> > >>
> > >>Remember to vote!
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
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Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

From
Neil Conway
Date:
On Tue, 2005-04-10 at 09:41 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> Could you apply this to the 8.0 docs, too?

Applied, with fixes.

-Neil