[Dbix-class] emulating (or using) MySQL's INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE...

[Daniel Westermann-Clark]

On 2006-06-22 21:22:51 -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> I see from ResultSet.pm that it does try to find the row first, and
> then it decides whether to update or create.
> 
> So in a multi-connection (possibly multi-server) environment,
> update_or_create cannot be used reliably.

Would a transaction help here?

> This is just food for though I guess, whether it's worth it or not
> to attempt to extend vendor-specific statements to that level of the
> DBIC code.

My understanding from Matt was that Storage-specific hooks for
update_or_create are a good idea, but I don't think anyone has done
the work yet.

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Daniel Westermann-Clark