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How to Safely Convert MERGE Syntax Between SQL Server and PostgreSQL

MERGE and upsert need surgical validation. Compare T-SQL MERGE with INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE (PostgreSQL).

MERGE is one of the most dangerous structures to convert manually: race conditions, duplicates, and triggers can corrupt data. In PostgreSQL the idiomatic pattern is INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE (upsert).

Conceptual parallel

SQL Server — MERGE

MERGE target AS d
USING source AS o ON d.id = o.id
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET value = o.value
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (id, value) VALUES (o.id, o.value);

PostgreSQL — ON CONFLICT

INSERT INTO target (id, value)
SELECT id, value FROM source
ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET value = EXCLUDED.value;

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