"Relyea, Mike" <mike.rel...@xerox.com> wrote:

>> The goal is, where uid not equals to 'janvleuven10' a new
>> record should be inserted with the uid, and registered=0

> So if a record is found you want to update it and if a record isn't
> found you want to insert it.  I think you'll probably want to use
> plpgsql http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql.html or some
> other language like Jasen suggested.  I don't know of a way to do this
> with straight sql.

Something along the lines of:

| UPDATE table SET attribute = 'something' WHERE primary_key = 'id';
| INSERT INTO table (primary_key, attribute) SELECT 'id', 'something' WHERE 
'id' NOT IN (SELECT primary_key FROM table);

should achieve that.

Tim


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