Re: gSoC - ADD MERGE COMMAND - code patch submission

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:52:31AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:33:04PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Boxuan Zhai <bxzhai2010@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > This is ZHAI BOXUAN, a student of gSoC 2010. My project is to add merge
> > > command in postgres.
> > > There is a more detailed instruction in readme.
> I would find it helpfull to find a short recap of how you want to
> handle the various problems (mostly around locking) in the readme.
>
> > > Any comments will be highly appreciated.
> > Is there any chance you can submit this as a single patch file?  Or if
> > not, can you at least use a zip or tar file instead of a RAR archive?
> > Ideally the patch would be against CVS HEAD, not 8.4.3.
>
> I would also suggest you base your patch either against the git tree
> or CVS. Currently it does include patches agains generated files like
> gram.y or kwlist.h which make it harder to see the real changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Andres

Please find enclosed a patch against git master as of
7b2668159bb4d0f5177a23d05bf7c2ab00bc0d75.  It works up to make, but
fails on make check.

I'm thinking the docs for INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE should link to
the docs for this, as they get written.

Cheers,
David.
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