Re: Returning Values from INSERT ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING

[Igal Sapir <igal@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that if I do a simple update it resolves my issue:

INSERT INTO users(email, name)

  VALUES('user@xxxxxxxxxx', 'User')

  ON CONFLICT (email) DO UPDATE 

    SET email = excluded.email  -- users.email works too, not sure if makes a difference

  RETURNING user_id, (xmax::text::int > 0) as existed;

But if anyone has a better solution then I'd love to hear it.

Thanks,

Igal

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Igal Sapir <igal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I want to use the "UPSERT" syntax for returning an ID if it exists, or inserting a record and returning the new ID if it does not exist.

INSERT INTO users(email, name)

  VALUES('user@xxxxxxxxxx', 'User')

  ON CONFLICT (email) DO NOTHING

  RETURNING user_id, (xmax::text::int > 0) as existed;

When an email address does not exist then it works fine and I get the new user_id, but when it does exist, I get no results at all.

How can I get the results in case of a CONFLICT?

Thanks,

Igal