Re: [GENERAL] upsert and update filtering

armand pirvu <armand.pirvu@gmail.com> wrote:
>But what if in the conflict situation I want to performa the update ONLY if the record is different. The update seems
tohappen no matter what 
>In other words is there anyway I can filter the update to happen (based on the sample date) only for 112 since col2 is
different? 

That's quite possible. An ON CONFLICT's UPDATE accepts a WHERE clause,
which can reference both existing and excluded tuples. That WHERE clause
can back out of the UPDATE based on whatever criteria you like.

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Peter Geoghegan