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Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 63

Insert result to table of updating column

I have this situation I'm doing a update statement on sql script in postgres, when I found matching record I want to update content and also save to other table for example id_user for who's I did update is it possible with use plpgsql. Can you give me any tips what terms I will should search on google ?

ex.

update User set Status "Active" where any_condition when success insert to UserHistoryTable

Upvotes: 1

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Jim Jones
Jim Jones

Reputation: 19613

Use a normal update with a RETURNING * inside a CTE, and from there insert the data in the history table:

WITH j AS (
 UPDATE tbuser SET status = 'Active' 
 WHERE id = 42 
 RETURNING *)
INSERT INTO user_hist SELECT * FROM j;

Demo: db<>fiddle

If you want to save the value before the update I suggest you take a look at triggers.

Upvotes: 1

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