Here's the code I have in place right now.
cursor.execute("SELECT link FROM feeds_feed WHERE link=%s",
(self.link,))
db.commit()
if cursor.rowcount == 0:
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO feeds_feed (release_group,
title, link, category, pub_date) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, now())",
(self.group, self.title, self.link, self.category,))
db.commit()
print "Inserting"
else:
print "Already Exists"
Basically the uniqueness of the link attribute is enforced in the
database so if I try to insert a value that already exists I get an
error that breaks the program. Right now I do a SELECT query first to
check if the value already exists. The insert is only executed only if
the value doesn't already exist.
This is a really bad way of doing things because I'm accessing the DB
way more than I need to. It would be great if I could just insert
values into the DB and let the uniqueness check at the DB level to
either add or refuse the duplicate value. I'm not really interested if
a particular value is rejected or added, I just want the most efficient
way to insert values.
I would really appreciate any suggestions or tips.
Thanks.
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