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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h b/src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h
index 1f3845b3fec..365000bdcdb 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/pathnodes.h
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ typedef struct LockRowsPath
 } LockRowsPath;
 
 /*
- * ModifyTablePath represents performing INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE modifications
+ * ModifyTablePath represents performing INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE
  *
  * We represent most things that will be in the ModifyTable plan node
  * literally, except we have a child Path not Plan.  But analysis of the
@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ typedef struct ModifyTablePath
 {
 	Path		path;
 	Path	   *subpath;		/* Path producing source data */
-	CmdType		operation;		/* INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE */
+	CmdType		operation;		/* INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE */
 	bool		canSetTag;		/* do we set the command tag/es_processed? */
 	Index		nominalRelation;	/* Parent RT index for use of EXPLAIN */
 	Index		rootRelation;	/* Root RT index, if target is partitioned */
@@ -1897,6 +1897,8 @@ typedef struct ModifyTablePath
 	List	   *rowMarks;		/* PlanRowMarks (non-locking only) */
 	OnConflictExpr *onconflict; /* ON CONFLICT clause, or NULL */
 	int			epqParam;		/* ID of Param for EvalPlanQual re-eval */
+	List	   *mergeActionLists;	/* per-target-table lists of actions for
+									 * MERGE */
 } ModifyTablePath;
 
 /*