insert if not exists oracle

Question

I need to be able to run an Oracle query which goes to insert a number of rows, but it also checks to see if a primary key exists and if it does, then it skips that insert. Something like:

INSERT ALL
    IF NOT EXISTS( SELECT 1 WHERE fo.primary_key='bar' )
    (
        INSERT INTO 
            schema.myFoo fo ( primary_key, value1, value2 )
        VALUES
            ('bar','baz','bat')
    ),

    IF NOT EXISTS( SELECT 1 WHERE fo.primary_key='bar1' )
    (
        INSERT INTO 
            schema.myFoo fo ( primary_key, value1, value2 )
        VALUES
            ('bar1','baz1','bat1')
    )
SELECT * FROM schema.myFoo;

Is this at all possible with Oracle?

_{Bonus points if you can tell me how to do this in PostgreSQL or MySQL.}

Answer 1

Coming late to the party, but...

With oracle 11.2.0.1 there is a semantic hint that can do this: IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_INDEX

Example:

insert /*+ IGNORE_ROW_ON_DUPKEY_INDEX(customer_orders,pk_customer_orders) */
  into customer_orders
       (order_id, customer, product)
values (    1234,     9876,  'K598')
     ;

---

UPDATE: Although this hint works (if you spell it correctly), there are better approaches which don't require Oracle 11R2:

First approach—direct translation of above semantic hint:

begin
  insert into customer_orders
         (order_id, customer, product)
  values (    1234,     9876,  'K698')
  ;
  commit;
exception
  when DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX
  then ROLLBACK;
end;

Second aproach—a lot faster than both above hints when there's a lot of contention:

begin
    select count (*)
    into   l_is_matching_row
    from   customer_orders
    where  order_id = 1234
    ;

    if (l_is_matching_row = 0)
    then
      insert into customer_orders
             (order_id, customer, product)
      values (    1234,     9876,  'K698')
      ;
      commit;
    end if;
exception
  when DUP_VAL_ON_INDEX
  then ROLLBACK;
end;