Re: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT IGNORE (and UPDATE) 3.0

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 05:02:19PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-04-23 15:52:40 +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> > When I set out I was really only hoping to express a preference as a user;
> > on balance I would really rather not have DO IGNORE, if it were possible to
> > avoid, because it's really ugly, but DO UPDATE/DO NOTHING I could just
> > about cope with (and means you don't need to add IGNORE as a keyword,
> > win!), although it still mildly pains me that there's an additional
> > unnecessary word.
> 
> Yea, DO NOTHING is a good alternative. And I do like we're adding one
> keyword less (which is also good for the parser's
> size/performance).

No question that DO IGNORE sounds awkward.  DO NOTHING also matches
CREATE RULE --- another plus.

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