Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT {UPDATE | IGNORE}

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT {UPDATE | IGNORE}
Date: 2014-09-30 22:03:07
Message-ID: 20140930220307.GW2084@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-09-30 14:57:43 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Regardless, I don't think there's any theoretical way to support UPSERT
> without a unique constraint.

You can do stuff like blocking predicate locking. But without indexes to
support it that gets awfully complicated and unfunny. I don't think we
want to go there. So essentially I agree with that statement.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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