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REPLACE | TiDB SQL Statement Reference
An overview of the usage of REPLACE for the TiDB database.
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REPLACE

The REPLACE statement is semantically a combined DELETE+INSERT statement. It can be used to simplify application code.

Synopsis

ReplaceIntoStmt ::=
    'REPLACE' PriorityOpt IntoOpt TableName PartitionNameListOpt InsertValues

PriorityOpt ::=
    ( 'LOW_PRIORITY' | 'HIGH_PRIORITY' | 'DELAYED' )?

IntoOpt ::= 'INTO'?

TableName ::=
    Identifier ( '.' Identifier )?

PartitionNameListOpt ::=
    ( 'PARTITION' '(' Identifier ( ',' Identifier )* ')' )?

InsertValues ::=
    '(' ( ColumnNameListOpt ')' ( ValueSym ValuesList | SelectStmt | '(' SelectStmt ')' | UnionStmt ) | SelectStmt ')' )
|   ValueSym ValuesList
|   SelectStmt
|   UnionStmt
|   'SET' ColumnSetValue? ( ',' ColumnSetValue )*

Examples

mysql> CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, c1 INT NOT NULL);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES (1), (2), (3);
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Records: 3  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+----+
| id | c1 |
+----+----+
|  1 |  1 |
|  2 |  2 |
|  3 |  3 |
+----+----+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> REPLACE INTO t1 (id, c1) VALUES(3, 99);
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> SELECT * FROM t1;
+----+----+
| id | c1 |
+----+----+
|  1 |  1 |
|  2 |  2 |
|  3 | 99 |
+----+----+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MySQL compatibility

This statement is understood to be fully compatible with MySQL. Any compatibility differences should be reported via an issue on GitHub.

See also