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by manigandham 3823 days ago
Lots of databases have MERGE but it's different from the typical UPDATE OR INSERT logic in terms of use cases, table requirements and concurrency control.

Here's a great post from Postgres team showing why they didn't just implement merge themselves:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3SWZRP0c3g6+aJ=YYDGY...