Add support for MERGE SQL command
authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:45:58 +0000 (16:45 +0200)
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:47:48 +0000 (16:47 +0200)
commit7103ebb7aae8ab8076b7e85f335ceb8fe799097c
tree0bc2faf176b58d2546de40c3c36d93a4cdf1aafe
parentae63017bdb316b16a9f201b10f1221598111d6c5
Add support for MERGE SQL command

MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a
source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can
conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise
require multiple PL statements.  For example,

MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
  UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
  INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
  DO NOTHING;

MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance
hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as
support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein.

MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful
for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference
to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there
is some overhead.  MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and
RETURNING clauses are not allowed either.  These limitations are likely
fixable with sufficient effort.  Rewrite rules are also not supported,
but it's not clear that we'd want to support them.

Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
95 files changed:
contrib/test_decoding/expected/ddl.out
contrib/test_decoding/sql/ddl.sql
doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml
doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/allfiles.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_policy.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/merge.sgml [new file with mode: 0644]
doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml
doc/src/sgml/trigger.sgml
src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt
src/backend/commands/explain.c
src/backend/commands/trigger.c
src/backend/executor/README
src/backend/executor/execMain.c
src/backend/executor/execPartition.c
src/backend/executor/execReplication.c
src/backend/executor/nodeModifyTable.c
src/backend/executor/spi.c
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/nodeFuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/readfuncs.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/setrefs.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/preptlist.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/appendinfo.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c
src/backend/parser/Makefile
src/backend/parser/analyze.c
src/backend/parser/gram.y
src/backend/parser/parse_agg.c
src/backend/parser/parse_collate.c
src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
src/backend/parser/parse_func.c
src/backend/parser/parse_merge.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
src/backend/parser/parse_target.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c
src/backend/rewrite/rowsecurity.c
src/backend/tcop/pquery.c
src/backend/tcop/utility.c
src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
src/include/commands/trigger.h
src/include/executor/nodeModifyTable.h
src/include/executor/spi.h
src/include/nodes/execnodes.h
src/include/nodes/nodes.h
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h
src/include/nodes/plannodes.h
src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
src/include/optimizer/prep.h
src/include/parser/analyze.h
src/include/parser/kwlist.h
src/include/parser/parse_merge.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/parser/parse_node.h
src/include/parser/parse_relation.h
src/include/tcop/cmdtaglist.h
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_gram.y
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_unreserved_kwlist.h
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plpgsql.h
src/test/isolation/expected/merge-delete.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/expected/merge-insert-update.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/expected/merge-match-recheck.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/expected/merge-update.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/isolation_schedule
src/test/isolation/specs/merge-delete.spec [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/specs/merge-insert-update.spec [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/specs/merge-match-recheck.spec [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/isolation/specs/merge-update.spec [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/regress/expected/identity.out
src/test/regress/expected/merge.out [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out
src/test/regress/expected/rowsecurity.out
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out
src/test/regress/expected/with.out
src/test/regress/parallel_schedule
src/test/regress/sql/identity.sql
src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql [new file with mode: 0644]
src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql
src/test/regress/sql/rowsecurity.sql
src/test/regress/sql/rules.sql
src/test/regress/sql/triggers.sql
src/test/regress/sql/with.sql
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list