Re: [basex-talk] db:add and ADD logic

I don't understand the ADD/db:add behaviour when adding two documents with the same name : previous document is not replaced, but copied, and I did not find a way to correct, and delete only one of the documents, because they all have the same name...

Currently, to optimize performance, ADD does not check if a document already exists in the document.

So, thanks to the db:replace function, I wrote a updating function which emulates desired behaviour (that adds or replaces the document if it already exists in the database).

Have you already tried the REPLACE command?

Are db:XXX functions really 'updating' ? Is there a way to delete only one of the duplicated documents ?

If you want to update single documents, you should ensure that all documents have distinct names. This may either be enforced by using REPLACE, or by yourself..

Christian