From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 'UPDATE OR INSERT' command
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:49:32 -0400
Message-ID: <20040715174932.GS21419@ns.snowman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.07.15.18.20.54.67962@yahoo.com>
References: <pan.2004.07.15.18.20.54.67962@yahoo.com>
* Jeff Kowalczyk (jtk@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Is there a postgresql SQL idiom to perform an UPDATE, which becomes an
> INSERT if the primary key does not exist?
>
> I'm not sure I *should* use it in my application, I just want to know if
> it can be done. Thanks.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there's one in PostgreSQL yet. MERGE is
similar to this, and is defined in the latest SQL spec. Hopefully it'll
be implemented in PostgreSQL sometime soon.
Stephen
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