Laravel 5.1 Create or Update on Duplicate

Question

In Laravel 5.1, for MySQL insert, I want to see if the record already exists and update on duplicate or create new if none exists.

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Answer 1

In my case this was caused by a simple mismatch on the auto incrementing key in my model table.

Getting the current max id:

SELECT max(id) from companies

Then setting the sequence value one higher:

select setval('companies_id_seq', 164);

eliminated the error.