Simon Riggs wrote: > I've been looking at ways of doing INSERT then UPDATE, but it doesn't > seem very easy to avoid unique index violations in that case. So doing > the UPDATE first then INSERTs later seems like the way to go.
INSERT has to be first to avoid a race condition (see my previous emails). We just need a way to get a unique index violation and continue with the UPDATE. We have savepoints now so it certainly seems possible. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
