mysql - INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE with WHERE?

Question

I'm doing a INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE but I need the update part to be conditional, only doing the update if some extra condition has changed.

However, WHERE is not allowed on this UPDATE. Is there any workaround for this?

I can't do combinations of INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT since this needs to work over a replication.

Answer 1

I suggest you to use IF() to do that.

Refer: conditional-duplicate-key-updates-with-mysql

INSERT INTO daily_events (created_on, last_event_id, last_event_created_at)
  VALUES ('2010-01-19', 23, '2010-01-19 10:23:11')
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
  last_event_id = IF(last_event_created_at < VALUES(last_event_created_at), VALUES(last_event_id), last_event_id);