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Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 18:36:01 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>,
	Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>,
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	pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org,
	Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>,
	Daniel Westermann <dwe@dbi-services.com>,
	Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>,
	Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Subject: Re: support for MERGE
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On 2022-May-18, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:33:50AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> 
> > That's separate from the question about eliding zeros.
> 
> Actually, the existing uses suggest that these *aren't* separate.
> 
> The cases where 0 output is elided (like Heap Blocks and Buffers) uses "=" and
> not ":".  The cases using ":" always show all fields (Sort Method, Buckets,
> Hits, Batches).  I'm not sure which is preferable for MERGE, but here's one
> way.

I chose the other way :-)

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