Re: Returning Values from INSERT ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING

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

INSERT INTO users(email, name)
VALUES('user(at)domain(dot)tld', '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(at)lucee(dot)org> 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(at)domain(dot)tld', '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
>