Peter Filipov wrote:
> hi,
> is there in postgres anything similar to:
> insert .... on duplicate update?
> here is the problem i need a solution for:
> I need to insert in pg_type a row which was previously selected from
> there and
> with slight modifications, the problem is that when i try to insert the row
> there might be a row with the same 'typname' which is sort of primary key.
> The second problem is that when doing those operations i don't want to
> depend
> on the specific structure of the pg_type catalog.
Are you certain it will always be safe to do this?
How will you provide meaningful values for columns you don't know exist?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd