On 05/19/2015 05:27 PM, Ravi Krishna wrote:
> Not sure whether I am understanding this. I checked embedded C and did
> not find any section which describes what I have asked, that is the
> ability to do multiple inserts, or updates or deletes in one sql call.
> For example, if my application does the following
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION
> INSERT INTO TABLE_A
> UPDATE TABLE_B
> INSERT INTO TABLE_C
> COMMIT TRANSACTION
Well PostgreSQL certainly supports the above.
>
> DB2 provides to combine the three sql operations into an array and make
> a call to DB2 which executes the array (that is all 3 sqls as one single
> call).
You can do this with inserts using multivalue.
INSERT INTO TABLE_A VALUES (), (), ();
I am not sure about UPDATE or DELETE, I know you can use WITH on DELETE
which gives you some flexibility.
I don't think you will get a one to one comparison but you should be
able to get close.
JD
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