From fa66de98a9bb28e0fb561699cf901833b3f41302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:55:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] >>>>Luckily, PG 8 is available for this. Do you have a short
example? >>> >>>No, and I think it should be in the manual as an example. >>>
>>>You will need to enter a loop that uses exception handling to detect
>>>unique_violation. >> >>Pursuant to an IRC discussion to which Dennis
Bjorklund and >>Christopher Kings-Lynne made most of the contributions,
please find >>enclosed an example patch demonstrating an UPSERT-like
capability. >>
David Fetter
---
doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
index 0d359b1d3b3..0fe722cb887 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v 1.66 2005/04/19 03:37:20 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v 1.67 2005/04/19 03:55:43 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="plpgsql">
@@ -2104,6 +2104,7 @@ END;
</para>
</tip>
<example id="plpgsql-upsert-example">
+ <title>Exceptions with UPDATE/INSERT</title>
<para>
This example uses an <literal>EXCEPTION</> to <command>UPDATE</> or
<command>INSERT</>, as appropriate.
--
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