Re: Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

I take it, following this thread, is that REPLACE is not in the SQL
standard?

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:56:18 -0400,
>  Edmund Dengler <edmundd@eSentire.com> wrote:
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>>Wasn't there a feature in some SQL database which was the equivalent of
>>UPDATE OR INSERT ... based on the primary key? Would this accomplish what
>>you want (I know that I have a desire for this feature a couple of times,
>>as I simply have code or triggers to essentially do the equivalent)? Is
>>this a desirable feature for Postgresql?
>>
>>
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>I remember people asking for the equivalent of MYSQL's REPLACE command
>in previous threads.
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>Another alternative is allowing the clients to determine what do do after an
>error so that you could try an insert first and then do an update if it
>failed without aborting your transaction.
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