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		hn_throwaway_99 on Oct 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres 15 Merge Command with Examples > How the hell did it take 20 years to finally land? Perhaps because people working for free can decide what they want to work on? I think merge is cool, but it also easily replicated with what most of us do now for upserts in postgres using ON CONFLICT.

petesergeant on Oct 18, 2022 | [–]

> people working for free

I don’t think that is an accurate characterisation of the Postgres core team

tpxl on Oct 18, 2022 | [–]

Lots of people are paid to work on Postgres.

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