RE: Feature Request: UPDATE 'error codes' or mysql_affected_rows() to be more "accurate"

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

At 12:38 -0700 on 05/27/2004, Daevid Vincent wrote about Re: Feature 
Request: UPDATE 'error codes' or mysql_affected:

>REPLACE INTO won't work, as I need the previous record (hence the update). I
>store the first and last time I saw a node, amongst other info. REPLACE
>would delete that data.

REPLACE would (might?) also fail if the Primary Key is some other 
table's Foreign Key (although this may be a permissible deletion 
since the record is not actually getting deleted but just the fields 
getting updated).