Re: UPSERT wiki page, and SQL MERGE syntax

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> I want to retain CONFLICTING(), although I'm thinking about changing
> the spelling to EXCLUDED(). While CONFLICTING() is more or less a new
> and unprecedented style of expression, and in general that's something
> to be skeptical of, I think it's appropriate because what we want here
> isn't quite like any existing expression. Using an alias-like syntax
> is misleading, since it implies that are no effects carried from the
> firing of before row insert triggers. It's also trickier to implement
> alias-like referencing.

I think that the general consensus was against that style.  I don't
like it, and IIRC a few other people commented as well.

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