Syntax

REPLACE [LOW_PRIORITY | DELAYED]
 [INTO] tbl_name [PARTITION (partition_list)] [(col,...)]
 {VALUES | VALUE} ({expr | DEFAULT},...),(...),...
[RETURNING select_expr 
      [, select_expr ...]]

Or:

IREPLACE [LOW_PRIORITY | DELAYED]
    [INTO] tbl_name [PARTITION (partition_list)]
    SET col={expr | DEFAULT}, ...
[RETURNING select_expr 
      [, select_expr ...]]

Or:

REPLACE [LOW_PRIORITY | DELAYED]
    [INTO] tbl_name [PARTITION (partition_list)] [(col,...)]
    SELECT ...
[RETURNING select_expr 
      [, select_expr ...]]

Description

Examples

Simple REPLACE statement

REPLACE INTO t2 VALUES (1,'Leopard'),(2,'Dog') RETURNING id2, id2+id2 
as Total ,id2|id2, id2&&id2;
+-----+-------+---------+----------+
| id2 | Total | id2|id2 | id2&&id2 |
+-----+-------+---------+----------+
|   1 |     2 |       1 |        1 |
|   2 |     4 |       2 |        1 |
+-----+-------+---------+----------+

Using stored functions in RETURNING

DELIMITER |
CREATE FUNCTION f(arg INT) RETURNS INT
    BEGIN
      RETURN (SELECT arg+arg);
    END|

DELIMITER ;
PREPARE stmt FROM "REPLACE INTO t2 SET id2=3, animal2='Fox' RETURNING f2(id2),
UPPER(animal2)";

EXECUTE stmt;
+---------+----------------+
| f2(id2) | UPPER(animal2) |
+---------+----------------+
|       6 | FOX            |
+---------+----------------+

Subqueries in the statement

REPLACE INTO t1 SELECT * FROM t2 RETURNING (SELECT id2 FROM t2 WHERE 
id2 IN (SELECT id2 FROM t2 WHERE id2=1)) AS new_id;
+--------+
| new_id |
+--------+
|      1 |
|      1 |
|      1 |
|      1 |
+--------+

Subqueries in the RETURNING clause that return more than one row or column cannot be used..

Aggregate functions cannot be used in the RETURNING clause. Since aggregate functions work on a set of values and if the purpose is to get the row count, ROW_COUNT() with SELECT can be used, or it can be used in REPLACE...SELECT...RETURNING if the table in the RETURNING clause is not the same as the REPLACE table.

See Also

• INSERT ... RETURNING