Question

Whenever I execute an “INSERT OR REPLACE” command to sqlite3, it’s actually create duplicate entries instead of overwriting the existing entries.

I created the table in sqlite3 with the following command:

CREATE TABLE mytable (a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, b VARCHAR(50), c BOOLEAN, d BOOLEAN, e INTEGER, f TEXT, g TEXT, h INTEGER, i DATETIME);

And then I’m executing this:

$database = new POD("sqlite:mydatabase.db");
$database->prepare("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO mytable (b, c, d, e, f, h, h, i) values(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)")
$database->execute('test', 0, 1, -1, 'test', 'test', 12, strtotime('now'));

What could I be doing wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

You should specify in your create statement what set of columns should be `unique’ — for example

CREATE TABLE mytable (a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, b VARCHAR(50), c BOOLEAN, d BOOLEAN,
                      e INTEGER, f TEXT, g TEXT, h INTEGER, i DATETIME,
                      UNIQUE (b,c));

Now

sqlite> insert or replace into mytable (b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i) values    ('foo',1,1,2,'bar','baz',3,'2011-07-19');
sqlite> select * from mytable;
2|foo|1|1|2|bar|baz|3|2011-07-19
sqlite> insert or replace into mytable (b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i) values ('foo',1,1,2,'bar','baz',4,'2011-07-19');
sqlite> select * from mytable;
3|foo|1|1|2|bar|baz|4|2011-07-19
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