Does REPLACE INTO not work in your case?
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|REPLACE| works exactly like |INSERT|, except that if an old record
in the table has the same value as a new record for a |PRIMARY KEY|
or a |UNIQUE| index, the old record is deleted before the new record
is inserted. See section 14.1.4 |INSERT| Syntax
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/INSERT.html>.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/REPLACE.html
HTH,
Robert J Taylor
robert@stripped
Daevid Vincent wrote:
>I'm developing a program where I try an "UPDATE ... LIMIT 1" and if
>mysql_affected_rows == 0, then I know nothing was updated and so I do an
>INSERT. I find this is much cleaner and the majority of the time, I'm going
>to do UPDATES, so I didn't want to waste a SELECT (even though I hear
>they're "cheap"). I'm doing these queries several times per second.
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>however... Of course UPDATE doesn't 'ERROR" if the record doesn't exist, it
>just didn't do anything (therefore that's why I use the mysql_num_rows() to
>check). The problem is that if I am actually doing an UPDATE to a record
>where nothing actually changed in the existing record, I still get
>mysql_affected_rows() equal to 0. *grrr*.
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>It would be extremely useful to somehow get a result of maybe -1 if I tried
>to update a record that didn't exist, versus a result of -2 if I tried to
>update a record that did exist, but mySQL didn't change anything.
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>I don't know exactly what I'm asking for other than a way to know the
>difference...
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>At the very least, it seems to me that if I update a record that exists
>already (even if no data changed), I should still get mysql_affected_rows()
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>>0 (since in theory I matched something, even if mySQL behind the scenes
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>didn't change the data).
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>Out of curiosity, if I have a TIMESTAMP column, would that solve my problem,
>since mySQL should be forced to update that TIMESTAMP right?? [btw, I know I
>could try this idea, but I'm home and my code is at work right now and I
>just had the idea! ;-]
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>http://daevid.com
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