Commit eebffea2 authored by unknown's avatar unknown

Clarified REPLACE command a bit.

parent 67006888
......@@ -34520,9 +34520,10 @@ or REPLACE [LOW_PRIORITY | DELAYED]
@end example
@code{REPLACE} works exactly like @code{INSERT}, except that if an old
record in the table has the same value as a new record on a unique index,
the old record is deleted before the new record is inserted.
@xref{INSERT, , @code{INSERT}}.
record in the table has the same value as a new record on a @code{UNIQUE}
index or @code{PRIMARY KEY}, the old record is deleted before the new
record is inserted.
@xref{INSERT, ,@code{INSERT}}.
In other words, you can't access the values of the old row from a
@code{REPLACE} statement. In some old MySQL versions it appeared that
......@@ -34536,6 +34537,10 @@ This fact makes it easy to determine whether @code{REPLACE} added
or replaced a row: check whether the affected-rows value is 1 (added)
or 2 (replaced).
Note that unless you use a @code{UNIQUE} index or @code{PRIMARY KEY},
using a @code{REPLACE} command makes no sense, since it would just do
an @code{INSERT}.
@node LOAD DATA, DO, REPLACE, Data Manipulation
@subsection @code{LOAD DATA INFILE} Syntax
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