Re: [HACKERS] Best practices: MERGE

Patch applied.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay in applying.

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David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >Luckily, PG 8 is available for this.  Do you have a short example?
> >
> > No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example.
> >
> > You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
> > unique_violation.
>
> Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis Bjorklund and
> Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions, please find
> enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like capability.
>
> Cheers,
> D
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