Re: HOWTO? if it exists, increment it, else, insert it

["A. Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>]

am  Thu, dem 25.01.2007, um  9:06:25 -0800 mailte Brian Neu folgendes:
> I can't seem to get CASE to work for me here and every example that I see is
> using CASE in a completely different way.
> 
> have a table:
> 
>     day(default CURRENT_DATE),   user,   count_of_a,    count_of_b
> 
> index is ("day", user)
> 
> 
> What is the best postgres way to handle updating this table?
> 
> I basically need to say,
> 
>     if (day,user) exists, then increment count A
>     else insert day, user, and count_a = 1.
> 

Take a look at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-UPSERT-EXAMPLE


Andreas
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