On 6 Jul 2010, at 13:03, Andre Lopes wrote:

> Hi Alban,
> 
> But in my application I have more than one way of uniquely identify the 
> record. Could be by the email field or by the id field.

Unique is unique. There is no other record that could possibly be identified by 
the same unique identifier. It doesn't matter if you can identify the same 
record using other identifiers that are also unique, it's still a unique 
identifier. So if you have a unique identifier for your table you can use on 
the OLD row in the WHERE clause.

For example, if you have a primary key on that table you can use it to identify 
the records for the update. Whether that PK uses a simple unique index or a 
composite unique index doesn't matter at all either.

Alban Hertroys

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