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Posted by Jerry Sievers on 10/09/05 17:10
smorrey@gmail.com writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I am writing an app in PHP that uses a PostGres database.
> One thing i have noticed is that what should/could be a single line of
> SQL code takes about 6 lines of PHP. This seem wasteful and redundant
> to me.
Here ya go!...
create temp table foo (
id int primary key,
data text
);
create rule foo
as on insert to foo
where exists (
select 1
from foo
where id = new.id
)
do instead
update foo
set data = new.data
where id = new.id
;
copy foo from stdin using delimiters ',';
1,hello
2,hello
\.
select * from foo order by id;
insert into foo values (
1,'it works!'
);
select * from foo order by id;
Outout...
CREATE TABLE
CREATE RULE
id | data
----+-------
1 | hello
2 | hello
(2 rows)
INSERT 0 0
id | data
----+-----------
1 | it works!
2 | hello
(2 rows)
HTH
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