Re: Possible to UPDATE array[] columns?

[Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>]

2009/10/30 Blake Starkenburg <blake(at)oldride(dot)com>:
> Using SQL is it possible to UPDATE (append) onto an array[] column. For
> example say I have a column named "scores int[]".
>
> ID  | scores
> 2   | {54,14,21,8}
> 3   | {12,0,7}
>
> Now I want to append the score of 12 on row:ID 2 so the new scores would
> read {54,14,21,8,12}. I thought maybe simply leaving the array key empty
> would auto-append "UPDATE table set scores[] = 12 WHERE id = 2", not so....
>

You could use the concatenation operator

so it would be:

UPDATE TABLE set scores[] = scores[] || 12
WHERE id = 2;

Thom