Re: Per row status during INSERT .. ON CONFLICT UPDATE?

On 2015-05-19 17:53:09 +0530, Robins Tharakan wrote:
> Is there a way to know which rows were INSERTed and UPDATEd when doing a
> INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE? Probably via pseudo column indicating INSERT
> / UPDATE ?

No, not really.

> The RETURNING clause just allows us to return columns, but am unable to
> find a way to know 'what' happened to a given row.

There previously has been discussion about extending RETURNING to allow
to return the before/after row. But to me that's a mostly independent
feature to ON CONFLICT.

Greetings,

Andres Freund