Your best bet is to do this as a single, bulk operation if possible. That way you can simply do an UPDATE ... WHERE EXISTS followed by an INSERT ... SELECT ... WHERE NOT EXISTS. On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 02:48:20PM -0400, Worky Workerson wrote: > I've set up something similar the 'recommended' way to merge data into > the DB, i.e. > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING > > however I did it with a trigger on insert, i.e. (not my schema :) ): -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461