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Optimal way to ignore duplicate inserts?
Background
This problem relates to ignoring duplicate inserts using PostgreSQL 9.2 or greater. The reason I ask is because of this code:
-- Ignores duplicates.
INSERT INTO
db_table ...
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Resolving DUPLICATE for a column with UNIQUE
I have a few column with UNIQUE INDEX. In some queries, duplicates should be acceptable, in which a postfix should be added to the value. For example, if test title exits, we change it to test ...
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How to use ON DUPLICATE KEY for UPDATE
Consider a table of
CREATE TABLE test
(
id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
external_id int(11),
number smallint(5),
value varchar(255),
UNIQUE INDEX (external_id, number),
PRIMARY KEY(id)
...
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Two-sided UNIQUE INDEX for two columns
Creating a table with composite PRIMARY KEY or using UNIQUE INDEX for two columns guarantee uniqueness of col1, col2. Is there a tricky approach to make the reverse order of two columns UNIQUE too ...
