From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: elein <elein@varlena.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Adding MERGE to the TODO list (resend with subject)
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:58:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200405100358.i4A3wCp02854@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409DC28A.7010509@familyhealth.com.au>
Added to TODO:
* Add MERGE command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >>Except you can keep trying and trying without the outermost transaction
> >>failing.
> >
> > But that won't provide the necessary next key locking you mentioned in
> > your first email, will it?
>
> No, but since I can loop an infinite number of times until either the
> update or insert works, I don't need next key locking.
>
> BTW, the reference in MySQL:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/REPLACE.html
>
> Hmm...no refernce to next key locking. Maybe that's an Innodb thing...
>
> Anyway, you can see how they've implemented their algorithm.
>
> Here is docs on the DB2 merge command from which the standard was derived:
>
> http://databasejournal.com/features/db2/article.php/10896_3322041_2
>
> Chris
>
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