Re: Easy form of "insert if it isn't already there"? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bartosz Dmytrak
Subject Re: Easy form of "insert if it isn't already there"?
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In response to Re: Easy form of "insert if it isn't already there"?  (Berend Tober <btober@broadstripe.net>)
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Maybe to show how "found" works and how to ignore errors - that is my assumption only.

Regards,
Bartek


2012/2/15 Berend Tober <btober@broadstripe.net>
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Bartosz Dmytrak<bdmytrak@eranet.pl>  wrote:

e.g. You can use BEGIN... EXCEPTION.... END, good example of
such approach is
there: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-UPSERT-EXAMPLE;


I wonder why, in that example, you would not try the INSERT first, and if that fails, then do the update?




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