Not if you are using innoDB tables. For these, you use INSERT and UPDATE 
triggers. 

Jim McNeely
On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Halász Sándor wrote:

>>>>> 2011/12/19 11:30 -0800, Jim McNeely >>>>
> In the MySQL documentation, we find this tantalizing statement:
> 
> "It is possible that in the case of a duplicate-key error, a storage engine 
> may perform the REPLACE as an update rather than a delete plus insert, but 
> the semantics are the same. There are no user-visible effects other than a 
> possible difference in how the storage engine increments Handler_xxx status 
> variables." 
> <<<<<<<<
> Well, try it--but beware of these statements: "the semantics are the same. 
> There are no user-visible effects other than a possible difference in how the 
> storage engine increments Handler_xxx status variables."
> 
> If accurate, the triggers are those of DELETE & INSERT, not UPDATE.
> 
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