Re: support for MERGE

On 1/18/21 11:48 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Jan-18, Robert Haas wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:48 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>> Here's a rebase of Simon/Pavan's MERGE patch to current sources.  I
>>> cleaned up some minor things in it, but aside from rebasing, it's pretty
>>> much their work (even the commit message is Simon's).
>>
>> It's my impression that the previous discussion concluded that their
>> version needed pretty substantial design changes. Is there a plan to
>> work on that? Or was some of that stuff done already?
> 
> I think some of the issues were handled as I adapted the patch to
> current sources.  However, the extensive refactoring that had been
> recommended in the old threads has not been done.  I have these two
> comments mainly:
> 
> https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdOeraX0RKojBs0jZxY5SmbQF3GJBP0+Rat=2g+VQsA+9g@mail.gmail.com
> https://postgr.es/m/7168.1547584387@sss.pgh.pa.us
> 
> I'll try to get to those, but I have some other patches that I need to
> handle first.

Since it does not appear this is being worked on for PG14 perhaps we 
should close it in this CF and then reopen it when a patch is available?

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net