You could always do a SELECT and if the row exists then UPDATE otherwise INSERT. Or INSERT and if you get an error then UPDATE.
Duane
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:mh@pixar.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:26 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] most idiomatic way to "update or insert"?
So I have some data that I want to put into a table. If the
row already exists (as defined by the primary key), I would
like to update the row. Otherwise, I would like to insert
the row.
I've been doing something like
delete from foo where name = 'xx';
insert into foo values('xx',1,2,...);
but I've been wondering if there's a more idiomatic or canonical
way to do this.
Many TIA,
Mark
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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios
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