On 01/29/2018 11:13 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 29 January 2018 at 15:44, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> Uh, if we know we are going to get question on this, the patch had >> better have an explanation of when to use it. Pushing the problem to >> later doesn't seem helpful. > > What problem are you referring to? > > INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE does ... > > MERGE allows you to ... In my reading of Pavel and Bruce, the only 'problem' being suggested is that the patch hasn't added a bit of documentation somewhere that lays out the relationship between these two things, more or less as you just did.
-Chap
