From: | smorrey(at)gmail(dot)com |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | INSERT OR UPDATE? |
Date: | 2005-10-09 06:15:37 |
Message-ID: | 1128838537.817935.78430@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com |
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Hello all,
I am writing an app in PHP that uses a PostGres database.
One thing i have noticed is that what should/could be a single line of
SQL code takes about 6 lines of PHP. This seem wasteful and redundant
to me.
Here is a sample of what I'm talking about ($db is a PDO already
defined and created).
$query[1] = "UPDATE my.table, SET somefield = '$someval' WHERE
somecondition";
$query[2] = "INSERT INTO my.table (somefield) VALUES ('$someval')";
if(!$db->query($query[1])){
$db->query($query[2]);
}
What I'm curious to know is if there is some way to simplify this,
either buy some PHP builtin or extension, or possibly something in SQL
I am missing. It seems to me that "UPDATE OR INSERT", should be valid,
but I can't seem to find anything relevant at all about it.
Anyways I hope you don't mind, but I'm crossposting this to
pgsql.general and comp.lang.php to see if I can get some information on
the subject.
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