conditional execution of insert/update-s

From: Dmitry Teslenko <dteslenko(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: conditional execution of insert/update-s
Date: 2009-01-22 08:15:10
Message-ID: 91325fec0901220015taad59a0v4d0e40056c9476a7@mail.gmail.com
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Hello!
Question is what's the easiest way to implement conditional execution
of insert/update-s via psql interface?

As far as I know there's following options:
1) create function in procedural language (plpgsql, for example);
then call that function
2) update ... where <conditon>; insert ... (select ... where <condition>);
not sure here if <condition> can be unrelated to the table being modified
by update/insert statement;

Are there alternatives?

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