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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Thu Dec 1 17:07:44 EST 2005
+Last updated: Thu Dec 1 17:12:27 EST 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
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* Add a GUC variable to warn about non-standard SQL usage in queries
* Add SQL-standard MERGE command, typically used to merge two tables
+ [merge]
This is similar to UPDATE, then for unmatched rows, INSERT.
Whether concurrent access allows modifications which could cause
row loss is implementation independent.
* Add REPLACE or UPSERT command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
+ [merge]
To implement this cleanly requires that the table have a unique index
so duplicate checking can be easily performed. It is possible to