Re: Anybody have an Oracle PL/SQL reference at hand?

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:46:22AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Depending on how tense you want to be about Oracle compatibility, we
> >could make people actually write their blocks as above --- that is,
> >the SAVEPOINT and ROLLBACK commands would be a required part of the
> >exception-block syntax. They wouldn't actually *do* anything, but
> >they would make the code look more like its Oracle equivalent. I'm not
> >for this, but maybe someone wants to make the case for it?
>
> So long as I can emulate SQL MERGE with it, I'm happy. ie. I need a
> solution to the 'try update, if no rows changed then insert (unique
> index)' common race condition issue. If I cannot keep looping that
> until it succeeds, then exceptions don't help me...

Honestly, I'd *love* to see a merge command built in, assuming it's not
very difficult. I would think that having the database handle this
internally would be much more performant than using pgsql for it.

> Chris
>
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