Update not actually updating data

Hi,

I’m executing an update on a row in my ‘field’ table where the type was previously ‘2’:

    return this.knex.table('field')
        .where({id : 1 })
        .update({type : 3})
        .returning('*')

This call does not fail, but the return shows that the type is STILL 2 and querying postgres shows that is in in fact still 2. Other calls, such as insert, are working fine.

Furthermore, I added a .toQuery() and copied and pasted the query directly to my database, and that worked (type was updated to 3).

[tgriesser]

So this is something that will probably be addressed before 1.0 (at least with a warning), but queries aren’t actually executed until something triggers the promise (calling .then, .catch, etc. or another associated method).

If you put a .then() at the end of the .returning('*') does the query run? If that’s not the issue is there any chance you’re in a transaction that isn’t being committed?

[elhigu]

Yep, documentation page doesn’t execute queries, but only prints out SQL that is generated by the query.

Anyhow nowadays preferred method to trigger query builder is to do

const res = await knex('table').where(A).update(B);