On 11/11/05, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that it has always been implicitly assumed around here > that the MERGE command would be a substitute for a MySQL-like REPLACE > functionality. After rereading the spec it seems that this is not the > case. MERGE always operates on two different tables, which REPLACE > doesn't do. > > That said, what kind of support for insert-or-update-this-row do we want > to provide, if any? Should it be a REPLACE command, an extension of > the INSERT command, a modication of the MERGE syntax, or something > else? > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ >
MERGE seems to me the better option... not just because is standard but at least i can see some use cases for it... -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
