2009/10/30 Blake Starkenburg <blake@oldride.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
