* Peter Geoghegan (p...@heroku.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > On 2015-04-28 16:36:28 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote: > >> I am also very sure that every time I'll write this statement I will have > >> to > >> look into manual for the names of TARGET and EXCLUDED because they don't > >> seem intuitive to me at all (especially the EXCLUDED). > > > > Same here. I don't understand why 'CONFLICTING' would be more ambiguous > > than EXCLUDED (as Peter argued earlier). Especially given that the whole > > syntax is called ON CONFLICT. > > Because the TARGET and EXCLUDED tuples conflict with each other - > they're both conflicting.
I agree with that, but how are NEW and OLD ambiguous? NEW is clearly
the tuple being added, while OLD is clearly the existing tuple.
Now that I think about it though, where that'd get ugly is using this
command *inside* a trigger function, which I can certainly imagine
people will want to do...
Thanks,
Stephen
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