Re: UPSERT
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Jonathan Scher <js@oxado.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-03-02T15:13:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > My instinct would be to follow your first strategy, i.e. detect which > path is needed rather than try one and then if it fails do the other. The very first thing you need to think about is how to solve the race condition problem, ie, two backends concurrently trying to insert identical data. Until you have a plausible mechanism for that, the whole thing is pie-in-the-sky. regards, tom lane