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by kkland 4056 days ago
I think the way MySQL works in doing "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" is to delete the old row and insert a new row if there's an auto incremental column (mostly it's ID column). Being curious if Postgres works the same way in this regard.
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No, that's how REPLACE works -- which is a complete pain to be honest! INSERT ... UPDATE works the way you'd hope it would, and keeps the auto inc columns correct.
No, the auto increment columns are maintained as is.
That's great. Otherwise, it just wastes IDs unless one figures out a workaround for it.