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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-3155:
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Here is a variation on the query Knut found which raises a de-serialization
error when trying to concatenate a null with a string. This variation
eliminates the subquery in the ON clause:
connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;create=true';
create table t1(x int, y varchar(100));
create table t2(x int);
insert into t2 values 1, 1, 2;
insert into t1 values (1, null), (2, '');
-- this is ok
select y || 'x'
from t2 left join t1 on true;
-- this fails
merge into t1
using t2 on true
when matched then update set y = y || 'x';
delete from t1 where y is null;
-- without the nulls, this succeeds
merge into t1
using t2 on true
when matched then update set y = y || 'x';
> 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,
> derby-3155-16-aa-treatCurrentRowLocationNodeLikeBaseColumnNode.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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