> Stephen Frost > * Markus Schaber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Generally, what is the fastest way for doing bulk processing of > > update-if-primary-key-matches-and-insert-otherwise operations? > > This is a very good question, and I havn't seen much of an answer to it > yet. I'm curious about the answer myself, actually. In the more recent > SQL specs, from what I understand, this is essentially what the 'MERGE' > command is for. This was recently added and unfortunately is not yet > supported in Postgres. Hopefully it will be added soon. >
Yes, I think it is an important feature for both Data Warehousing (used in set-operation mode for bulk processing) and OLTP (saves a round-trip to the database, so faster on single rows also). It's in my top 10 for 2005. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match