Re: Where's my Derby?
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 05-04-2010 10:09, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 04-04-2010 20:12, Lew wrote:
I hear good things about H2.
;ALLOW_LITERALS=NONE in the connection URL certainly is nice !
H2 supports the rather useful MERGE INTO command [...] Anyway, argh,
looks like i'm going to have to add a facility for database-specific
SQL for the insert operation if i want this to be portable. I'd really
like to avoid having to fall back to running multiple queries to probe
the database for the existence of the key and then do UPDATE or INSERT
accordingly.
Given the maintenance work of adding a specific SQL statement for every
new database wouldn't it just be easier to make two statements?
Easier, of course. Significantly easier? Not really. It's just one SQL
statement, and not a very complicated one.
Especially with a high update ratio then an UPDATE with a WHERE and only
an INSERT if no rows were updated could be worth considering.
Yes, absolutely. And easier to do than the INSERT-first case, because you
have to detect failure of the primary key constraint to trigger the
UPDATE, and i'm not confident about being able to do that portably.
Anyway the cost should not be so bad, because the first of the two
statements should get the relevant pages loaded in memory so the second
should be fast.
As discussed downstream, i worry that it will clobber concurrency if done
safely.
tom
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