>>>>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

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
index f9546efa77200fa420202a7098d89ff3530ab1fc..fab180b5a7364c086997f3b8d80c8f93511b6319 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml
@@ -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.