Re: INSERT OR UPDATE?

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Jerry Sievers <jerry(at)jerrysievers(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT OR UPDATE?
Date: 2005-10-10 12:02:32
Message-ID: 1128945752.2995.24.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 13:34, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
[snip]
> It's actually quite surprising how many people get this wrong and don't
> realize it (I wonder how many problems are because of this). The SQL spec
> should have had a PUT/MERGE decades ago. The insert vs update format being
> different is also annoying, oh well.

Referring to the above, is there any plan to implement such commands in
postgres ? I don't know if it is standard SQL, but some other RDBMSes
have such command, and they are actually useful.

>
> Regards,
> Link.
[snip]

Cheers,
Csaba.

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