On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:43:51 -0500, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote:

> Philip Newton wrote:
> > It even lets you mix the two with REPLACE INTO, which will do an
> > INSERT, unless the record is already present, in which case it'll do
> > an UPDATE instead.
> 
> Rather, it does a DELETE then an INSERT. Which I'd rate slightly more 
> hateful, since it's another entry towards any auto-insert fields running 
> out of numbers. But it probably depends on the situation.

And delete won't work if it is a referenced record, where update would.
This is just screaming for cursing users. More hate

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