Re: Replaceing records

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 03:00, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> MySQL has a nice feature that allows to call a replace rather insert
> which will attempt to insert if record not present and replace if it does.
>
> Is there any similar feature ?
>
> Currently I run a select prior to any insert and then update or insert
> depending on the result of the select. The problem here is that I just
> doubled the queries. Doing so on a table with 5Mio rows and on 100k
> inserts will take time and I would like to have an efficient way of
> doing it.

What if you try do the INSERT, and if it returns with a "key exists"
error, do the UPDATE?

Will the SELECT really slow things down that much, since the record
will be in buffers after you touch it the 1st time?

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