Alexander Farber wrote on 31.10.2010 09:22:
Hello Postgres users,

to mimic the MySQL-REPLACE statement I need
to try to UPDATE a record and if that fails - INSERT it.


There is actually an example of this in the PG manual ;)

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

Here is another solution based on triggers:
http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2009/06/approaches-to-upsert.html

Regards
Thomas


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