Re: No REPLACE function ?!

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No REPLACE function ?!
Date: 2009-04-01 05:55:41
Message-ID: 20090401055541.GA29430@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Jeffrey Lake - Admin :
> let me take a gander there is no REPLACE function like mySQL ??
>
> I will have to to check to see if the data exists if it does UPDATE it
> if not INSERT it ??

No, but you can use the solution described in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-UPSERT-EXAMPLE

Regards, Andreas
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