Hi. I have a little problem.
In a system of mine i need to insert records into table [tbStat], and if the records exist i need to update them instead and increase a column [cQuantity] for every update. I.e. the first insert sets cQuantity to 1, and for every other run cQuantity is increased. Currently i have implemented this as a stored procedure in the plpgsql language. This means that in my stored procedure i first do a select to find out if the row exists or not, then i do a insert or update depending if the row existed. Unfortunately, stored procedures seems awfully slow. And i need the application to go faster. One solution could be to implement the stored procedure in my program instead. I think that this will be atleast 50% faster than my stored procedure, so that would be ok. However, this has made me thinking. Couldn't this be done directly in SQL? Brgds Robert ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq