Re: INSERT before UPDATE?

am  Thu, dem 16.08.2007, um 10:30:01 +0200 mailte Ji?í N?mec folgendes:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask you for an advice.
>
> There are two tables in my PostgreSQL database - main table with datas and
> second with translations for all languages of these records.
>
> When I try to UPDATE a record in the language table and this record
> doesn't exists there I need to INSERT into the language table (from
> default language version) and execute UPDATE statement again.
>
> Could you tell me if is this possible and if so - how to do it?

Okay, i try to ask our doc-bot on IRC:

11:15 < akretschmer> ??upsert
11:15 < rtfm_please> For information about upsert
11:15 < rtfm_please> see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-control-structures.html#PLPGSQL-UPSERT-EXAMPLE

Andreas
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