Support MERGE Phase – I

All the tables (target, source or any CTE present) in the SQL statement are local i.e. a merge-sql with a combination of Citus local and
Non-Citus tables (regular Postgres tables) should work and give the same result as Postgres MERGE on regular tables. Catch and throw an
exception (not-yet-supported) for all other scenarios during Citus-planning phase.

src/backend/distributed/deparser/ruleutils_15.c

@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ static void get_insert_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context,
 								 bool colNamesVisible);
 static void get_update_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context,
 								 bool colNamesVisible);
+static void get_merge_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context);
+
 static void get_update_query_targetlist_def(Query *query, List *targetList,
 								deparse_context *context,
 								RangeTblEntry *rte);
@@ -459,6 +461,7 @@ static char *generate_function_name(Oid funcid, int nargs,
 					   List *argnames, Oid *argtypes,
 					   bool has_variadic, bool *use_variadic_p,
 					   ParseExprKind special_exprkind);
+static List *get_insert_column_names_list(List *targetList, StringInfo buf, deparse_context *context, RangeTblEntry *rte);
 
 #define only_marker(rte)  ((rte)->inh ? "" : "ONLY ")
 
@@ -2095,6 +2098,10 @@ get_query_def_extended(Query *query, StringInfo buf, List *parentnamespace,
 			get_delete_query_def(query, &context, colNamesVisible);
 			break;
 
+		case CMD_MERGE:
+			get_merge_query_def(query, &context);
+			break;
+
 		case CMD_NOTHING:
 			appendStringInfoString(buf, "NOTHING");
 			break;
@@ -3225,9 +3232,8 @@ get_insert_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context,
 	RangeTblEntry *select_rte = NULL;
 	RangeTblEntry *values_rte = NULL;
 	RangeTblEntry *rte;
-	char	   *sep;
 	ListCell   *l;
-	List	   *strippedexprs;
+	List	   *strippedexprs = NIL;
 
 	/* Insert the WITH clause if given */
 	get_with_clause(query, context);
@@ -3281,43 +3287,11 @@ get_insert_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context,
 	 * Add the insert-column-names list.  Any indirection decoration needed on
 	 * the column names can be inferred from the top targetlist.
 	 */
-	strippedexprs = NIL;
-	sep = "";
 	if (query->targetList)
-		appendStringInfoChar(buf, '(');
-	foreach(l, query->targetList)
 	{
-		TargetEntry *tle = (TargetEntry *) lfirst(l);
+		strippedexprs = get_insert_column_names_list(query->targetList,
-
+								buf, context, rte);
-		if (tle->resjunk)
-			continue;			/* ignore junk entries */
-
-		appendStringInfoString(buf, sep);
-		sep = ", ";
-
-		/*
-		 * Put out name of target column; look in the catalogs, not at
-		 * tle->resname, since resname will fail to track RENAME.
-		 */
-		appendStringInfoString(buf,
-							   quote_identifier(get_attname(rte->relid,
-															tle->resno,
-															false)));
-
-		/*
-		 * Print any indirection needed (subfields or subscripts), and strip
-		 * off the top-level nodes representing the indirection assignments.
-		 * Add the stripped expressions to strippedexprs.  (If it's a
-		 * single-VALUES statement, the stripped expressions are the VALUES to
-		 * print below.  Otherwise they're just Vars and not really
-		 * interesting.)
-		 */
-		strippedexprs = lappend(strippedexprs,
-								processIndirection((Node *) tle->expr,
-												   context));
 	}
-	if (query->targetList)
-		appendStringInfoString(buf, ") ");
 
 	if (query->override)
 	{
@@ -3741,6 +3715,148 @@ get_delete_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context,
 	}
 }
 
+/* ----------
+ * get_merge_query_def			- Parse back a MERGE parsetree
+ * ----------
+ */
+static void
+get_merge_query_def(Query *query, deparse_context *context)
+{
+	StringInfo buf = context->buf;
+	RangeTblEntry *targetRte;
+
+	/* Insert the WITH clause if given */
+	get_with_clause(query, context);
+
+	/*
+	 * Start the query with MERGE INTO <target>
+	 */
+	targetRte = rt_fetch(query->resultRelation, query->rtable);
+
+	if (PRETTY_INDENT(context))
+	{
+		appendStringInfoChar(buf, ' ');
+		context->indentLevel += PRETTYINDENT_STD;
+	}
+
+	/* if it's a shard, do differently */
+	if (GetRangeTblKind(targetRte) == CITUS_RTE_SHARD)
+	{
+		char *fragmentSchemaName = NULL;
+		char *fragmentTableName = NULL;
+
+		ExtractRangeTblExtraData(targetRte, NULL, &fragmentSchemaName, &fragmentTableName, NULL);
+
+		/* use schema and table name from the remote alias */
+		appendStringInfo(buf, "MERGE INTO %s%s",
+						 only_marker(targetRte),
+						 generate_fragment_name(fragmentSchemaName, fragmentTableName));
+
+		if(targetRte->eref != NULL)
+			appendStringInfo(buf, " %s",
+					quote_identifier(get_rtable_name(query->resultRelation, context)));
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		appendStringInfo(buf, "MERGE INTO %s%s",
+						 only_marker(targetRte),
+						 generate_relation_or_shard_name(targetRte->relid,
+										context->distrelid,
+										context->shardid, NIL));
+
+		if (targetRte->alias != NULL)
+			appendStringInfo(buf, " %s",
+							 quote_identifier(get_rtable_name(query->resultRelation, context)));
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Add the MERGE source relation -- USING <source>
+	 */
+	get_from_clause(query, " USING ", context);
+
+	/*
+	 * Add the MERGE ON condition
+	 */
+	Assert(query->jointree->quals != NULL);
+	{
+		appendContextKeyword(context, " ON ",
+							 -PRETTYINDENT_STD, PRETTYINDENT_STD, 1);
+		get_rule_expr(query->jointree->quals, context, false);
+	}
+
+	ListCell *actionCell = NULL;
+	foreach(actionCell, query->mergeActionList)
+	{
+		MergeAction *action = (MergeAction *) lfirst(actionCell);
+
+		/* Add WHEN [NOT] MATCHED */
+		appendContextKeyword(context, " WHEN",
+							 -PRETTYINDENT_STD, PRETTYINDENT_STD, 1);
+		appendStringInfo(buf, " %s", action->matched ? "MATCHED" : "NOT MATCHED");
+
+		/* Add optional AND <condition> */
+		if (action->qual)
+		{
+			appendContextKeyword(context, " AND ",
+							 -PRETTYINDENT_STD, PRETTYINDENT_STD, 1);
+			get_rule_expr(action->qual, context, false);
+		}
+
+		appendContextKeyword(context, " THEN",
+						 -PRETTYINDENT_STD, PRETTYINDENT_STD, 1);
+
+		switch (action->commandType)
+		{
+			case CMD_INSERT:
+			{
+				appendStringInfo(buf, " INSERT " );
+				List *strippedexprs = NIL;
+
+				if (action->targetList)
+				{
+					strippedexprs = get_insert_column_names_list(action->targetList,
+										buf, context, targetRte);
+				}
+
+				if (strippedexprs)
+				{
+					/* Add the single-VALUES expression list */
+					appendContextKeyword(context, "VALUES (",
+										 -PRETTYINDENT_STD, PRETTYINDENT_STD, 2);
+					get_rule_list_toplevel(strippedexprs, context, false);
+					appendStringInfoChar(buf, ')');
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					/* No expressions, so it must be DEFAULT VALUES */
+					appendStringInfoString(buf, "DEFAULT VALUES");
+				}
+			}
+			break;
+
+			case CMD_UPDATE:
+				appendStringInfo(buf, " UPDATE SET " );
+				get_update_query_targetlist_def(query, action->targetList,
+									context, targetRte);
+				break;
+
+			case CMD_DELETE:
+				appendStringInfo(buf, " DELETE" );
+				break;
+
+			case CMD_NOTHING:
+				appendStringInfo(buf, " DO NOTHING " );
+				break;
+
+			default:
+				elog(ERROR, "unknown action in MERGE WHEN clause");
+		}
+	}
+
+	ereport(DEBUG1, (errmsg("<Deparsed MERGE query: %s>", buf->data)));
+}
+
+
 /* ----------
  * get_utility_query_def			- Parse back a UTILITY parsetree
  * ----------
@@ -8761,4 +8877,54 @@ getOwnedSequences_internal(Oid relid, AttrNumber attnum, char deptype)
 	return result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * get_insert_column_names_list Prepares the insert-column-names list. Any indirection
+ * decoration needed on the column names can be inferred from the top targetlist.
+ */
+static List *
+get_insert_column_names_list(List *targetList, StringInfo buf,
+					deparse_context *context, RangeTblEntry *rte)
+{
+	char *sep;
+	ListCell *l;
+	List *strippedexprs;
+
+	strippedexprs = NIL;
+	sep = "";
+	appendStringInfoChar(buf, '(');
+	foreach(l, targetList)
+	{
+		TargetEntry *tle = (TargetEntry *) lfirst(l);
+
+		if (tle->resjunk)
+			continue;			/* ignore junk entries */
+
+		appendStringInfoString(buf, sep);
+		sep = ", ";
+
+		/*
+		 * Put out name of target column; look in the catalogs, not at
+		 * tle->resname, since resname will fail to track RENAME.
+		 */
+		appendStringInfoString(buf,
+							   quote_identifier(get_attname(rte->relid,
+															tle->resno,
+															false)));
+
+		/*
+		 * Print any indirection needed (subfields or subscripts), and strip
+		 * off the top-level nodes representing the indirection assignments.
+		 * Add the stripped expressions to strippedexprs.  (If it's a
+		 * single-VALUES statement, the stripped expressions are the VALUES to
+		 * print below.  Otherwise they're just Vars and not really
+		 * interesting.)
+		 */
+		strippedexprs = lappend(strippedexprs,
+								processIndirection((Node *) tle->expr,
+												   context));
+	}
+	appendStringInfoString(buf, ") ");
+
+	return strippedexprs;
+}
 #endif /* (PG_VERSION_NUM >= PG_VERSION_15) && (PG_VERSION_NUM < PG_VERSION_16) */

src/backend/distributed/planner/deparse_shard_query.c

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ RebuildQueryStrings(Job *workerJob)
 			query = copyObject(originalQuery);
 		}
 
-		if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(query))
+		if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(query))
 		{
 			List *relationShardList = task->relationShardList;
 

src/backend/distributed/planner/distributed_planner.c

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "distributed/citus_nodefuncs.h"
 #include "distributed/citus_nodes.h"
 #include "distributed/citus_ruleutils.h"
+#include "distributed/colocation_utils.h"
 #include "distributed/commands.h"
 #include "distributed/cte_inline.h"
 #include "distributed/function_call_delegation.h"
@@ -74,7 +75,8 @@ static uint64 NextPlanId = 1;
 /* keep track of planner call stack levels */
 int PlannerLevel = 0;
 
-static void ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand(Query *queryTree);
+static void ErrorIfQueryHasUnsupportedMergeCommand(Query *queryTree,
+												   List *rangeTableList);
 static bool ContainsMergeCommandWalker(Node *node);
 static bool ListContainsDistributedTableRTE(List *rangeTableList,
 											bool *maybeHasForeignDistributedTable);
@@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ static PlannedStmt * PlanDistributedStmt(DistributedPlanningContext *planContext
 static RTEListProperties * GetRTEListProperties(List *rangeTableList);
 static List * TranslatedVars(PlannerInfo *root, int relationIndex);
 static void WarnIfListHasForeignDistributedTable(List *rangeTableList);
-
+static void ErrorIfMergeHasUnsupportedTables(Query *parse, List *rangeTableList);
 
 /* Distributed planner hook */
 PlannedStmt *
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ distributed_planner(Query *parse,
 			 * Fast path queries cannot have merge command, and we
 			 * prevent the remaining here.
 			 */
-			ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand(parse);
+			ErrorIfQueryHasUnsupportedMergeCommand(parse, rangeTableList);
 
 			/*
 			 * When there are partitioned tables (not applicable to fast path),
@@ -303,11 +305,13 @@ distributed_planner(Query *parse,
 
 
 /*
- * ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand walks over the query tree and throws error
+ * ErrorIfQueryHasUnsupportedMergeCommand walks over the query tree and bails out
- * if there are any Merge command (e.g., CMD_MERGE) in the query tree.
+ * if there is no Merge command (e.g., CMD_MERGE) in the query tree. For merge,
+ * looks for all supported combinations, throws an exception if any violations
+ * are seen.
  */
 static void
-ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand(Query *queryTree)
+ErrorIfQueryHasUnsupportedMergeCommand(Query *queryTree, List *rangeTableList)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Postgres currently doesn't support Merge queries inside subqueries and
@@ -316,11 +320,20 @@ ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand(Query *queryTree)
 	 * We do not call this path for fast-path queries to avoid this additional
 	 * overhead.
 	 */
-	if (ContainsMergeCommandWalker((Node *) queryTree))
+	if (!ContainsMergeCommandWalker((Node *) queryTree))
 	{
-		ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+		/* No MERGE found */
-						errmsg("MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet")));
+		return;
 	}
+
+
+	/*
+	 * In Citus we have limited support for MERGE, it's allowed
+	 * only if all the tables(target, source or any CTE) tables
+	 * are are local i.e. a combination of Citus local and Non-Citus
+	 * tables (regular Postgres tables).
+	 */
+	ErrorIfMergeHasUnsupportedTables(queryTree, rangeTableList);
 }
 
 
@@ -331,7 +344,10 @@ ErrorIfQueryHasMergeCommand(Query *queryTree)
 static bool
 ContainsMergeCommandWalker(Node *node)
 {
-#if PG_VERSION_NUM >= PG_VERSION_15
+	#if PG_VERSION_NUM < PG_VERSION_15
+	return false;
+	#endif
+
 	if (node == NULL)
 	{
 		return false;
@@ -340,7 +356,7 @@ ContainsMergeCommandWalker(Node *node)
 	if (IsA(node, Query))
 	{
 		Query *query = (Query *) node;
-		if (query->commandType == CMD_MERGE)
+		if (IsMergeQuery(query))
 		{
 			return true;
 		}
@@ -349,7 +365,6 @@ ContainsMergeCommandWalker(Node *node)
 	}
 
 	return expression_tree_walker(node, ContainsMergeCommandWalker, NULL);
-#endif
 
 	return false;
 }
@@ -628,7 +643,7 @@ IsModifyCommand(Query *query)
 	CmdType commandType = query->commandType;
 
 	if (commandType == CMD_INSERT || commandType == CMD_UPDATE ||
-		commandType == CMD_DELETE)
+		commandType == CMD_DELETE || commandType == CMD_MERGE)
 	{
 		return true;
 	}
@@ -2592,3 +2607,148 @@ WarnIfListHasForeignDistributedTable(List *rangeTableList)
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+
+/*
+ * IsMergeAllowedOnRelation takes a relation entry and checks if MERGE command is
+ * permitted on special relations, such as materialized view, returns true only if
+ * it's a "source" relation.
+ */
+bool
+IsMergeAllowedOnRelation(Query *parse, RangeTblEntry *rte)
+{
+	if (!IsMergeQuery(parse))
+	{
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	RangeTblEntry *targetRte = rt_fetch(parse->resultRelation, parse->rtable);
+
+	/* Is it a target relation? */
+	if (targetRte->relid == rte->relid)
+	{
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * ErrorIfMergeHasUnsupportedTables checks if all the tables(target, source or any CTE
+ * present) in the MERGE command are local i.e. a combination of Citus local and Non-Citus
+ * tables (regular Postgres tables), raises an exception for all other combinations.
+ */
+static void
+ErrorIfMergeHasUnsupportedTables(Query *parse, List *rangeTableList)
+{
+	ListCell *tableCell = NULL;
+
+	foreach(tableCell, rangeTableList)
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rangeTableEntry = (RangeTblEntry *) lfirst(tableCell);
+		Oid relationId = rangeTableEntry->relid;
+
+		switch (rangeTableEntry->rtekind)
+		{
+			case RTE_RELATION:
+			{
+				/* Check the relation type */
+				break;
+			}
+
+			case RTE_SUBQUERY:
+			case RTE_FUNCTION:
+			case RTE_TABLEFUNC:
+			case RTE_VALUES:
+			case RTE_JOIN:
+			case RTE_CTE:
+			{
+				/* Skip them as base table(s) will be checked */
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * RTE_NAMEDTUPLESTORE is typically used in ephmeral named relations,
+			 * such as, trigger data; until we find a genuine use case, raise an
+			 * exception.
+			 * RTE_RESULT is a node added by the planner and we shouldn't
+			 * encounter it in the parse tree.
+			 */
+			case RTE_NAMEDTUPLESTORE:
+			case RTE_RESULT:
+			{
+				ereport(ERROR,
+						(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+						 errmsg("MERGE command is not supported with "
+								"Tuplestores and results")));
+				break;
+			}
+
+			default:
+			{
+				ereport(ERROR,
+						(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+						 errmsg("MERGE command: Unrecognized range table entry.")));
+			}
+		}
+
+		/* RTE Relation can be of various types, check them now */
+
+		/* skip the regular views as they are replaced with subqueries */
+		if (rangeTableEntry->relkind == RELKIND_VIEW)
+		{
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (rangeTableEntry->relkind == RELKIND_MATVIEW ||
+			rangeTableEntry->relkind == RELKIND_FOREIGN_TABLE)
+		{
+			/* Materialized view or Foreign table as target is not allowed */
+			if (IsMergeAllowedOnRelation(parse, rangeTableEntry))
+			{
+				/* Non target relation is ok */
+				continue;
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+								errmsg("MERGE command is not allowed "
+									   "on materialized view")));
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (rangeTableEntry->relkind != RELKIND_RELATION &&
+			rangeTableEntry->relkind != RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE)
+		{
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+					 errmsg("Unexpected relation type(relkind:%c) in MERGE command",
+							rangeTableEntry->relkind)));
+		}
+
+		Assert(rangeTableEntry->relid != 0);
+
+		/* Distributed tables and Reference tables are not supported yet */
+		if (IsCitusTableType(relationId, REFERENCE_TABLE) ||
+			IsCitusTableType(relationId, DISTRIBUTED_TABLE))
+		{
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+					 errmsg("MERGE command is not supported on "
+							"distributed/reference tables yet")));
+		}
+
+		/* Regular Postgres tables and Citus local tables are allowed */
+		if (!IsCitusTable(relationId) ||
+			IsCitusTableType(relationId, CITUS_LOCAL_TABLE))
+		{
+			continue;
+		}
+
+
+		/* Any other Citus table type missing ? */
+	}
+
+	/* All the tables are local, supported */
+}

src/backend/distributed/planner/fast_path_router_planner.c

@@ -162,16 +162,11 @@ FastPathRouterQuery(Query *query, Node **distributionKeyValue)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-#if PG_VERSION_NUM >= PG_VERSION_15
+	if (IsMergeQuery(query))
-	if (query->commandType == CMD_MERGE)
 	{
-		/*
+		/* MERGE command is not a fast path query */
-		 * Citus doesn't support MERGE command, lets return
-		 * early and explicitly for fast-path queries.
-		 */
 		return false;
 	}
-#endif
 
 	/*
 	 * We want to deal with only very simple queries. Some of the

src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_physical_planner.c

@@ -2464,7 +2464,7 @@ QueryPushdownTaskCreate(Query *originalQuery, int shardIndex,
 	 * If it is a modify query with sub-select, we need to set result relation shard's id
 	 * as anchor shard id.
 	 */
-	if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(originalQuery))
+	if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(originalQuery))
 	{
 		resultRangeTable = rt_fetch(originalQuery->resultRelation, originalQuery->rtable);
 		resultRelationOid = resultRangeTable->relid;
@@ -2493,7 +2493,7 @@ QueryPushdownTaskCreate(Query *originalQuery, int shardIndex,
 				anchorShardId = shardInterval->shardId;
 			}
 		}
-		else if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(originalQuery))
+		else if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(originalQuery))
 		{
 			shardInterval = cacheEntry->sortedShardIntervalArray[shardIndex];
 			if (!modifyWithSubselect || relationId == resultRelationOid)

src/backend/distributed/planner/multi_router_planner.c

@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ static DeferredErrorMessage * ModifyPartialQuerySupported(Query *queryTree, bool
 														  multiShardQuery,
 														  Oid *distributedTableId);
 static bool NodeIsFieldStore(Node *node);
-static DeferredErrorMessage * MultiShardUpdateDeleteSupported(Query *originalQuery,
+static DeferredErrorMessage * MultiShardUpdateDeleteMergeSupported(Query *originalQuery,
-															  PlannerRestrictionContext *
+																   PlannerRestrictionContext
+																   *
 																   plannerRestrictionContext);
 static DeferredErrorMessage * SingleShardUpdateDeleteSupported(Query *originalQuery,
 															   PlannerRestrictionContext *
@@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ CreateModifyPlan(Query *originalQuery, Query *query,
 		return distributedPlan;
 	}
 
-	if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(query))
+	if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(query))
 	{
 		job = RouterJob(originalQuery, plannerRestrictionContext,
 						&distributedPlan->planningError);
@@ -539,7 +540,7 @@ ModifyPartialQuerySupported(Query *queryTree, bool multiShardQuery,
 	if (queryTree->hasSubLinks == true)
 	{
 		/* we support subqueries for INSERTs only via INSERT INTO ... SELECT */
-		if (!UpdateOrDeleteQuery(queryTree))
+		if (!UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(queryTree))
 		{
 			Assert(queryTree->commandType == CMD_INSERT);
 
@@ -953,11 +954,19 @@ ModifyQuerySupported(Query *queryTree, Query *originalQuery, bool multiShardQuer
 				 */
 			}
 			else if (rangeTableEntry->relkind == RELKIND_MATVIEW)
+			{
+				if (IsMergeAllowedOnRelation(originalQuery, rangeTableEntry))
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				else
 				{
 					return DeferredError(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED,
-									 "materialized views in modify queries are not supported",
+										 "materialized views in "
+										 "modify queries are not supported",
 										 NULL, NULL);
 				}
+			}
 			/* for other kinds of relations, check if its distributed */
 			else
 			{
@@ -995,10 +1004,10 @@ ModifyQuerySupported(Query *queryTree, Query *originalQuery, bool multiShardQuer
 			char *rangeTableEntryErrorDetail = NULL;
 
 			/*
-			 * We support UPDATE and DELETE with subqueries and joins unless
+			 * We support UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE with subqueries and joins unless
 			 * they are multi shard queries.
 			 */
-			if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(queryTree))
+			if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(queryTree))
 			{
 				continue;
 			}
@@ -1059,7 +1068,8 @@ ModifyQuerySupported(Query *queryTree, Query *originalQuery, bool multiShardQuer
 
 		if (multiShardQuery)
 		{
-			errorMessage = MultiShardUpdateDeleteSupported(originalQuery,
+			errorMessage = MultiShardUpdateDeleteMergeSupported(
+				originalQuery,
 				plannerRestrictionContext);
 		}
 		else
@@ -1239,11 +1249,11 @@ ErrorIfOnConflictNotSupported(Query *queryTree)
 
 
 /*
- * MultiShardUpdateDeleteSupported returns the error message if the update/delete is
+ * MultiShardUpdateDeleteMergeSupported returns the error message if the update/delete is
  * not pushdownable, otherwise it returns NULL.
  */
 static DeferredErrorMessage *
-MultiShardUpdateDeleteSupported(Query *originalQuery,
+MultiShardUpdateDeleteMergeSupported(Query *originalQuery,
 									 PlannerRestrictionContext *plannerRestrictionContext)
 {
 	DeferredErrorMessage *errorMessage = NULL;
@@ -1382,14 +1392,25 @@ HasDangerousJoinUsing(List *rtableList, Node *joinTreeNode)
 
 
 /*
- * UpdateOrDeleteQuery checks if the given query is an UPDATE or DELETE command.
+ * UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery checks if the given query is an UPDATE or DELETE or
- * If it is, it returns true otherwise it returns false.
+ * MERGE command. If it is, it returns true otherwise it returns false.
  */
 bool
-UpdateOrDeleteQuery(Query *query)
+UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(Query *query)
 {
-	return query->commandType == CMD_UPDATE ||
+	return (query->commandType == CMD_UPDATE ||
-		   query->commandType == CMD_DELETE;
+			query->commandType == CMD_DELETE ||
+			query->commandType == CMD_MERGE);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * IsMergeQuery checks if the given query is a MERGE SQL command.
+ */
+bool
+IsMergeQuery(Query *query)
+{
+	return (query->commandType == CMD_MERGE);
 }
 
 
@@ -1826,16 +1847,28 @@ RouterJob(Query *originalQuery, PlannerRestrictionContext *plannerRestrictionCon
 	}
 
 	if (*planningError)
+	{
+		/*
+		 * For MERGE, we do _not_ plan anything other than Router job, let's
+		 * not continue further down the lane in distributed planning, simply
+		 * bail out.
+		 */
+		if (IsMergeQuery(originalQuery))
+		{
+			RaiseDeferredError(*planningError, ERROR);
+		}
+		else
 		{
 			return NULL;
 		}
+	}
 
 	Job *job = CreateJob(originalQuery);
 	job->partitionKeyValue = partitionKeyValue;
 
 	if (originalQuery->resultRelation > 0)
 	{
-		RangeTblEntry *updateOrDeleteRTE = ExtractResultRelationRTE(originalQuery);
+		RangeTblEntry *updateOrDeleteOrMergeRTE = ExtractResultRelationRTE(originalQuery);
 
 		/*
 		 * If all of the shards are pruned, we replace the relation RTE into
@@ -1844,7 +1877,7 @@ RouterJob(Query *originalQuery, PlannerRestrictionContext *plannerRestrictionCon
 		 * DELETE RTE with subquery type, we just set task list to empty and return
 		 * the job.
 		 */
-		if (updateOrDeleteRTE->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY)
+		if (updateOrDeleteOrMergeRTE->rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY)
 		{
 			job->taskList = NIL;
 			return job;
@@ -2250,7 +2283,7 @@ PlanRouterQuery(Query *originalQuery,
 		 * We defer error here, later the planner is forced to use a generic plan
 		 * by assigning arbitrarily high cost to the plan.
 		 */
-		if (UpdateOrDeleteQuery(originalQuery) && isMultiShardQuery)
+		if (UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(originalQuery) && isMultiShardQuery)
 		{
 			planningError = DeferredError(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED,
 										  "Router planner cannot handle multi-shard "
@@ -2289,7 +2322,7 @@ PlanRouterQuery(Query *originalQuery,
 								 NULL, NULL);
 		}
 
-		Assert(UpdateOrDeleteQuery(originalQuery));
+		Assert(UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(originalQuery));
 		planningError = ModifyQuerySupported(originalQuery, originalQuery,
 											 isMultiShardQuery,
 											 plannerRestrictionContext);
@@ -2361,7 +2394,7 @@ PlanRouterQuery(Query *originalQuery,
 	 * If this is an UPDATE or DELETE query which requires coordinator evaluation,
 	 * don't try update shard names, and postpone that to execution phase.
 	 */
-	bool isUpdateOrDelete = UpdateOrDeleteQuery(originalQuery);
+	bool isUpdateOrDelete = UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(originalQuery);
 	if (!(isUpdateOrDelete && RequiresCoordinatorEvaluation(originalQuery)))
 	{
 		UpdateRelationToShardNames((Node *) originalQuery, *relationShardList);

src/include/distributed/distributed_planner.h

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
 
 #define CURSOR_OPT_FORCE_DISTRIBUTED 0x080000
 
+/* Hack to compile Citus on pre-MERGE Postgres versions */
+#if PG_VERSION_NUM < PG_VERSION_15
+#define CMD_MERGE CMD_UNKNOWN
+#endif
+
 
 /* level of planner calls */
 extern int PlannerLevel;
@@ -248,4 +253,6 @@ extern struct DistributedPlan * CreateDistributedPlan(uint64 planId, Query *orig
 													  PlannerRestrictionContext *
 													  plannerRestrictionContext);
 
+extern bool IsMergeAllowedOnRelation(Query *parse, RangeTblEntry *rte);
+
 #endif /* DISTRIBUTED_PLANNER_H */

src/include/distributed/multi_router_planner.h

@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ extern RangeTblEntry * ExtractResultRelationRTEOrError(Query *query);
 extern RangeTblEntry * ExtractDistributedInsertValuesRTE(Query *query);
 extern bool IsMultiRowInsert(Query *query);
 extern void AddPartitionKeyNotNullFilterToSelect(Query *subqery);
-extern bool UpdateOrDeleteQuery(Query *query);
+extern bool UpdateOrDeleteOrMergeQuery(Query *query);
+extern bool IsMergeQuery(Query *query);
 
 extern uint64 GetAnchorShardId(List *relationShardList);
 extern List * TargetShardIntervalForFastPathQuery(Query *query,

src/test/regress/expected/merge_0.out

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+SHOW server_version \gset
+SELECT substring(:'server_version', '\d+')::int >= 15 AS server_version_ge_15
+\gset
+\if :server_version_ge_15
+\else
+\q

src/test/regress/expected/pg15.out

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ NOTICE:  renaming the new table to pg15.generated_stored_ref
 
 --
 -- In PG15, there is a new command called MERGE
--- It is currently not supported for Citus tables
+-- It is currently not supported for Citus non-local tables
 -- Test the behavior with various commands with Citus table types
 -- Relevant PG Commit: 7103ebb7aae8ab8076b7e85f335ceb8fe799097c
 --
@@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ SELECT citus_add_local_table_to_metadata('tbl1');
 
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
 SELECT undistribute_table('tbl1');
 NOTICE:  creating a new table for pg15.tbl1
 NOTICE:  moving the data of pg15.tbl1
@@ -307,7 +306,6 @@ SELECT citus_add_local_table_to_metadata('tbl2');
 
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
 -- one table is reference, the other local, not supported
 SELECT create_reference_table('tbl2');
  create_reference_table
@@ -317,7 +315,7 @@ SELECT create_reference_table('tbl2');
 
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
+ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on distributed/reference tables yet
 -- now, both are reference, still not supported
 SELECT create_reference_table('tbl1');
  create_reference_table
@@ -327,7 +325,7 @@ SELECT create_reference_table('tbl1');
 
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
+ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on distributed/reference tables yet
 -- now, both distributed, not works
 SELECT undistribute_table('tbl1');
 NOTICE:  creating a new table for pg15.tbl1
@@ -421,14 +419,14 @@ SELECT create_distributed_table('tbl2', 'x');
 
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
+ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on distributed/reference tables yet
 -- also, not inside subqueries & ctes
 WITH targq AS (
     SELECT * FROM tbl2
 )
 MERGE INTO tbl1 USING targq ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE;
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
+ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on distributed/reference tables yet
 -- crashes on beta3, fixed on 15 stable
 --WITH foo AS (
 --  MERGE INTO tbl1 USING tbl2 ON (true)
@@ -443,7 +441,7 @@ USING tbl2
 ON (true)
 WHEN MATCHED THEN
     UPDATE SET x = (SELECT count(*) FROM tbl2);
-ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on Citus tables yet
+ERROR:  MERGE command is not supported on distributed/reference tables yet
 -- test numeric types with negative scale
 CREATE TABLE numeric_negative_scale(numeric_column numeric(3,-1), orig_value int);
 INSERT into numeric_negative_scale SELECT x,x FROM generate_series(111, 115) x;
@@ -1490,3 +1488,5 @@ SELECT run_command_on_workers($$DROP ACCESS METHOD heap2$$);
 \set VERBOSITY terse
 SET client_min_messages TO ERROR;
 DROP SCHEMA pg15 CASCADE;
+DROP ROLE rls_tenant_1;
+DROP ROLE rls_tenant_2;

src/test/regress/expected/pgmerge_0.out

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+SHOW server_version \gset
+SELECT substring(:'server_version', '\d+')::int >= 15 AS server_version_ge_15
+\gset
+\if :server_version_ge_15
+\else
+\q

src/test/regress/multi_schedule

@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ test: background_task_queue_monitor
 # Causal clock test
 test: clock
 
+# MERGE tests
+test: merge
+test: pgmerge
+
 # ---------
 # test that no tests leaked intermediate results. This should always be last
 # ---------

src/test/regress/sql/pg15.sql

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ SELECT undistribute_table('generated_stored_ref');
 
 --
 -- In PG15, there is a new command called MERGE
--- It is currently not supported for Citus tables
+-- It is currently not supported for Citus non-local tables
 -- Test the behavior with various commands with Citus table types
 -- Relevant PG Commit: 7103ebb7aae8ab8076b7e85f335ceb8fe799097c
 --
@@ -943,3 +943,5 @@ SELECT run_command_on_workers($$DROP ACCESS METHOD heap2$$);
 \set VERBOSITY terse
 SET client_min_messages TO ERROR;
 DROP SCHEMA pg15 CASCADE;
+DROP ROLE rls_tenant_1;
+DROP ROLE rls_tenant_2;