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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-3155:
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Thanks for continuing to test-drive the MERGE statement. Yes, that last one is
supposed to be forbidden, though I can see that the error message could be
improved. The same table can't be used as both a source and target table.
That's part of what's intended by the following bullet item in the functional
spec under the heading "New MERGE Statement Syntax". This item could probably
stand some clarification:
"correlation names - The source table name (or its correlation name) may not be
the same as the target table name (or its correlation name)."
Thanks,
-Rick
> 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,
> derby-3155-12-aa-canOmitInsertColumnList.diff,
> derby-3155-13-aa-allowSystemAndTempTables.diff,
> derby-3155-14-aa-replaceCorrelationNamesOnLeftSideOfSETclauses.diff,
> derby-3155-15-aa-replumbMergeResultSetCleanup.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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