On 11/20/2010 02:43 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
Grant
Mckenzie wrote on 20.11.2010 07:00:
How do people implement insert or upate (
otherwise known as upsert )
behaviour in postgres i.e. insert a row if it's key does not exist in
the database else update the existing row?
You can simply send the UPDATE, if nothing was updated, it's safe to
send the INSERT
Regards
Thomas
something on the line of ....
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/plpgsql-control-structures.html
Example 38-2. Exceptions with UPDATE/INSERT
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With Regards
Ashish Karalkar
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