Dear anyone,

I wish to update an entire table with just using (PostGre)SQL (=preferably without 
resorting to C, Python or so). Can I? If so how? 

For example, I want to update/replace table:
 
 a | b | c 
---+---+---
 1 | 2 | 3 
 4 | 5 | 6 
 7 | 8 | 9 

with table:

 a | b | c 
---+---+---
 1 | 2 | 2 
 4 | 5 | 6 
 9 | 0 | 0 

So, I wish to:
1- update every data point in the table (based on the UNIQUE column 'a' (=PRIMARY 
KEY)), and if this value of a is not present (such as for instance value 9: 9,0,0),I 
wish to;
2- insert a new row with data points
3- and I want to delete old rows that are not used present in the new table (such as 
row 7 : 7,8,9)

How can I update an entire table with just using (PestGre)SQL? 

Lots of thanks for any help anyone can give me,

Wiliam Knobbel, PhD-Student


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