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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
Cc: hlinnaka <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
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Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE/IGNORE 4.0
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 16:10:52 +0200
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On 2015-05-01 10:06:42 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > would you rather have EXCLUDED.data refer to the tuple version from
> > VALUES (or a SELECT or ...) or to version from the BEFORE trigger?
> 
> I think it would be completely shocking if it didn't refer to the
> version returned by the BEFORE trigger.  My interpretation of the
> semantics of BEFORE triggers is that, once the trigger has fired and
> returned a new tuple, things should proceed just as if that new tuple
> were the one originally provided by the user.

Well, it's a BEFORE INSERT trigger, not a BEFORE UPDATE, that's why I'm
not so sure that argument applies.

Peter also leaned in "your" direction and you apparently have a strong
opinion on it... So I guess that'll be it unless somebody else weighs
in.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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