Re: On duplicate ignore

Just create a unique index on EMAIL column and handle error if it comes

Thanks,
Atul Goel

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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Gnanakumar
Sent: 18 January 2012 11:04
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] On duplicate ignore

Hi,

Ours is a web-based application.  We're trying to implement ON DUPLICATE IGNORE for one of our application table, named
EMAILLIST. After a quick Google search, I'm finding the following "easy & convenient" single SQL statement syntax to
followwith: 

INSERT INTO EMAILLIST (EMAIL)
       SELECT 'john@example.net'
       WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM EMAILLIST WHERE EMAIL = 'john@example.net');

My question is, in a single threaded INSERT, this will *definitely* work.
Since ours is a web-based application, will this work out in a concurrent multi-threaded environment too?  In other
words,will it be truly unique when INSERT calls are concurrent? 

Regards,
Gnanam



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