I like MERGE too, in the proper place. I'm not sure that the absence of MERGE co...

		jacques_chester on March 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres Demystified I like MERGE too, in the proper place. I'm not sure that the absence of MERGE constitutes "this terrible state". It would be like a commercial RDBMS lacking boolean and serial types, necessitating reams and reams of repetitive, error-prone boilerplate constraints and insert/update triggers.

Yeah, but boy, they're sure going to bill you for it.