2009/10/30 Blake Starkenburg <[email protected]>:
> 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

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