Re: More than one UNIQUE key when matching items..

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Ron Clarke <rclarkeai(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More than one UNIQUE key when matching items..
Date: 2021-03-20 20:00:13
Message-ID: 7d1d877d122bc59dceddd687f37fb674175078dd.camel@cybertec.at
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On Sat, 2021-03-20 at 15:51 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> In SQL Server this is easy, we insert the records into a temporary table with separate Unique
> indexes on the id for set a and the ids for set b and put the 'ignore_dup_key' on which tells
> SQL Server to ignore duplicate rows and carry on.
>
> The nearest to this at first appears to be the ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT IGNORE in Postgres.
> But this only works with a single constraint, at a time i.e. we can't set the ON CONFLICT ON
> CONSTRAINT IGNORE to work with multiple UNIQUE indexes.

You can try this:

INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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