Commit 2b187436 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Doc: fix syntax synopsis for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE.

Commit 906bfcad adjusted the syntax synopsis for UPDATE, but missed
the fact that the INSERT synopsis now contains a duplicate of that.

In passing, improve wording and markup about using a table alias to
dodge the conflict with use of "excluded" as a special table name.
parent a5d4e3ff
......@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ INSERT INTO <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table_name</replaceable> [ AS <replac
DO NOTHING
DO UPDATE SET { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">column_name</replaceable> = { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">expression</replaceable> | DEFAULT } |
( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">column_name</replaceable> [, ...] ) = ( { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">expression</replaceable> | DEFAULT } [, ...] ) |
( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">column_name</replaceable> [, ...] ) = [ ROW ] ( { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">expression</replaceable> | DEFAULT } [, ...] ) |
( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">column_name</replaceable> [, ...] ) = ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">sub-SELECT</replaceable> )
} [, ...]
[ WHERE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">condition</replaceable> ]
......@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ INSERT INTO <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table_name</replaceable> [ AS <replac
A substitute name for <replaceable
class="PARAMETER">table_name</replaceable>. When an alias is
provided, it completely hides the actual name of the table.
This is particularly useful when <literal>ON CONFLICT DO
UPDATE</literal> targets a table named excluded, since that's
also the name of the special table representing rows proposed
This is particularly useful when <literal>ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE</>
targets a table named <varname>excluded</>, since that will otherwise
be taken as the name of the special table representing rows proposed
for insertion.
</para>
</listitem>
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