IIRC Postgres has had ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE functionality longer than
MySQL...
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:45:50 -0700, Pet <petshm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 11 Aug., 20:39, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:03 PM, someone<petshm...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like to make insert into db if record not exist otherwise update.
> to save typing list of columns in both statements I do following
> <snip>
> is there better or more readable way to do it?
Well, mysql, in particular, offers an "on duplicate key update" clause
that you can take a look at. Don't know about about other databases.
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Oh, forgotten to mention. It's PostGres
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