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From: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Dean Rasheed <[email protected]>
Cc: Isaac Morland <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: MERGE ... RETURNING
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:47:24 +0200
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On 7/12/23 02:43, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-01-22 at 19:58 +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>> (We do have to keep our fingers
>> crossed that they will decide to use the same RETURNING syntax as we
>> do
>> in this patch, of course.)
> 
> Do we have a reason to think that they will accept something similar?

We have reason to think that they won't care at all.

There is no RETURNING clause in Standard SQL, and the way they would do 
this is:

     SELECT ...
     FROM OLD TABLE (
         MERGE ...
     ) AS m

The rules for that for MERGE are well defined.
-- 
Vik Fearing

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