Re: most idiomatic way to "update or insert"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron St-Pierre
Subject Re: most idiomatic way to "update or insert"?
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In response to Re: most idiomatic way to "update or insert"?  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Richard Huxton wrote:

>
> An "update or insert" would be useful sometimes, but it's not always
> necessary. Indeed, if I find I don't know whether I'm adding or
> updating something I take a long hard look at my design - it ususally
> means I've not thought clearly about something.


> Can you give an actual example of where you need this?

How about stocks for a simple example? Let's say you have a simple table
with the stock symbol, stock exchange, high, low, open, close and
volume. Every day you update the data for each stock. But there are
always new stocks listed on an exchange, so when a new stock shows up
you have to do an insert instead of an update.

Ron



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