[jira] [Commented] (DERBY-6723) Allow derived table as a source in MERGE statement

["Knut Anders Hatlen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-6723:
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I believe the standard does allow it, but it is currently disabled because of some technical challenges when the source table is not a base table. There is a similar request for allowing views as source (DERBY-6656), and it sounds as if the underlying problem that needs to be solved, is the same for both of these issues.

> Allow derived table as a source in MERGE statement
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-6723
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6723
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 10.11.1.1
>            Reporter: Aleksei Kovura
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I'm trying to utilize MERGE to do an upsert operation like this:
> MERGE INTO "APP"."ST_KEY_VAL" trg USING (SELECT * FROM (VALUES ('key1', 'val1')) as t1 (st_key, st_val)) as src
> ON trg.st_key = src.st_key
> WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET st_val = src.st_val
> WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT VALUES (src.st_key, src.st_val)
> ;
> Derby returns an error:
> Error: The source table of a MERGE statement must be a base table or table function.
> SQLState:  42XAL
> ErrorCode: 30000
> MERGE is used this way on other databases, unfortunately I can't find whether it is standard compliant or not. If this gets implemented, I would use it in PreparedStatement, replacing values with "?"-s.



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