Re: most idiomatic way to "update or insert"?

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(at)pixar(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:26 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)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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