Re: Allow ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE to return EXCLUDED values

Viktor Holmberg <v@viktorh.net>

From: Viktor Holmberg <v@viktorh.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-10-07T13:55:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I’ve looked through this patch. As far as I can tell, everything looks good, working and well commented.
The only nitpick I could find is a mispelling "EXLCUDED" → "EXCLUDED" in src/test/regress/expected/returning.out:464.

A maybe bigger question, is it nice that EXCLUDED is null when no conflict occurred? I can see the logic, but I think ergonomics wise it’d be nicer to have the proposed values in EXCLUDED, no matter what happened later. Then one can check EXCLUDED.value = NEW.value to see if one’s changes were added, for example.

/Viktor
On 7 Oct 2025 at 15:43 +0200, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, wrote:
> Rebased version attached, following 904f6a593a0.
>
> Regards,
> Dean