Re: UPSERT on partition

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the root of the problem that the trigger is called for an INSERT ..
> ON CONFLICT statement but it turns that into a plain INSERT?
>
> Is there any way of writing a partitioning trigger that doesn't have
> that defect?

We did discuss whether or not it was important to expose information
to triggers sufficient to route + UPSERT tuples into inheritance
children in an equivalent way (equivalent to an UPSERT into the
inheritance parent). At the time, you seemed to think that it could
wait [1].

Even if we added what was discussed as a minimal and practical way of
exposing this [2], it would still be awkward for an INSERT trigger to
examine the structure of the "UPDATE part" of the UPSERT -- there will
be no *tuple* for that case (yet).

Inheritance with triggers is a leaky abstraction, so this kind of
thing is always awkward. Still, UPSERT has full support for
*inheritance* -- that just doesn't help in this case.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZAVXMwOeBPK4ASZonuwUr3QPSWWk6XetXMcA+8H7Cd8Q@mail.gmail.com
[2] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3SWZRvjyu8nnvw_JHeXx4YMQ9XaA7u0GEtLbCgym0oEAn_7Q@mail.gmail.com
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Peter Geoghegan