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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-3155:
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If I use a system table as source table, I get an error message saying that the
source must be a table, which it is:
{noformat}
ij> create table t1(x int);
0 rows inserted/updated/deleted
ij> merge into t1 using sysibm.sysdummy1 on true when not matched then insert
(x) values (1);
ERROR 42XAL: The source table of a MERGE statement must be a base table, view,
or table function.
ij> merge into t1 using sysibm.sysdummy1 s on true when not matched then insert
(x) values (1);
ERROR 42XAL: The source table of a MERGE statement must be a base table, view,
or table function.
ij> merge into t1 using sys.systables on true when not matched then insert (x)
values (1);
ERROR 42XAL: The source table of a MERGE statement must be a base table, view,
or table function.
{noformat}
> Support for SQL:2003 MERGE statement
> ------------------------------------
>
> Key: DERBY-3155
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3155
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Trejkaz
> Assignee: Rick Hillegas
> Labels: derby_triage10_10
> Attachments: MergeStatement.html, MergeStatement.html,
> MergeStatement.html, derby-3155-01-ac-grammar.diff,
> derby-3155-02-ag-fixParserWarning.diff,
> derby-3155-03-ae-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff,
> derby-3155-03-af-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff,
> derby-3155-03-ag-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff,
> derby-3155-03-ah-backingStoreHashtableWithRowLocation.diff,
> derby-3155-04-ae-deleteAction.diff, derby-3155-04-af-deleteAction.diff,
> derby-3155-05-aa-triggerTransitionTableAsTarget.diff,
> derby-3155-06-aa-triggerTransitionTableAsSource.diff,
> derby-3155-07-ad-insertAction.diff, derby-3155-08-ah-updateAction.diff,
> derby-3155-09-aa-correlationNames.diff,
> derby-3155-10-aa-correlationNames.diff,
> derby-3155-11-ab-beforeTriggersCantFireMerge.diff
>
>
> A relatively common piece of logic in a database application is to check for
> a row's existence and then either update or insert depending on its existence.
> SQL:2003 added a MERGE statement to perform this operation. It looks like
> this:
> MERGE INTO table_name USING table_name ON (condition)
> WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET column1 = value1 [, column2 = value2 ...]
> WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT column1 [, column2 ...] VALUES (value1 [,
> value2 ...])
> At the moment, the only workaround for this would be to write a stored
> procedure to do the same operation, or to implement the logic client-side.
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