Re: Postgres for a "data warehouse", 5-10 TB

On 09/11/2011 08:59 AM, Igor Chudov wrote:
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> I do not plan to do a lot of random writing. My current design is that my perl scripts write to a temporary table
everyweek, and then I do INSERT..ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. 
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> By the way, does that INSERT UPDATE functionality or something like this exist in Postgres?
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> i

You have two options:

1) write a function like:
create function doinsert(_id integer, _value text) returns void as $$
begin
   update thetable set value = _value where id = _id;
   if not found then
      insert into thetable(id, value) values (_id, _value);
    end if
end;
$$ language plpgsql;

2) use two sql statements:
-- update the existing
update realTable set value = (select value from tmp where tmp.id = realTable.id)
where exists (select value from tmp where tmp.id = realTable.id);

-- insert the missing
insert into realTable(id, value)
select id, value from tmp where not exists(select 1 from realTable where tmp.id = realTable.id);


-Andy