"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > INSERT INTO table SELECT 1, 'foo' EXCEPT SELECT 1, 'foo' FROM table WHERE > pkcol=1;
> See? So now that INSERT statement will insert the row if it doesn't exist, > or insert zero rows if it does. You are then guaranteed that your > transaction will not fail and rollback, so you can repeat your update, or do > the insert first and then the update, etc. Uh, why exactly do you think this is race-free? It looks fancy, but AFAICS the SELECT will return info that is correct as of its starting timestamp; which is not enough to guarantee that the INSERT won't conflict with another transaction doing the same thing concurrently. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]