Re: someone working to add merge?

I Wrote:

> From the mysql manual:
>
> 'REPLACE works exactly like INSERT, except that if an old
> record in the table has the same value as a new record for a
> PRIMARY KEY or a UNIQUE index, the old record is deleted
> before the new record is inserted. See Section 13.2.4,
> "INSERT Syntax".'

It also says:
Note that unless the table has a PRIMARY KEY  or UNIQUE index, using a
REPLACE statement makes no sense. It becomes equivalent to INSERT,
because there is no index to be used to determine whether a new row
duplicates another.


... John