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Database Queries

Update data in database (REST API)

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Update existing rows in your database using REST API.

Security: Row-Level Security ensures you can only update data you have access to

Safety: Requires at least one filter to prevent accidental mass updates. A request with no filters is rejected with 400 (mirrors delete). This matters for service-key queries, which run with full access and bypass RLS.

Note: If RLS blocks the update, an empty result is returned (not an error)

Branch-targeted. Runs against the named branch instead of the parent database, using the branch's own credentials. The branch must be active and unexpired. Nothing about this request can reach the parent's data.

post/databases/{databaseName}/branches/{branchName}/query/update

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.volcano.dev
  • URL: https://api.volcano.dev/databases/{databaseName}/branches/{branchName}/query/update
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

databaseNamestring required

Database name (unique within project, lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores only)

branchNamestring required

Branch name (unique within the parent database, lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores only)

Request body

tablestring required

Table name

valuesobject required

Column values to update. JSON objects and arrays are stored as JSON, so send them to json or jsonb columns. For a Postgres array column, send an array literal string such as "{a,b}".

Example request

{
  "table": "posts",
  "values": {
    "title": "Updated Title",
    "status": "published"
  },
  "filters": [
    {
      "column": "id",
      "operator": "eq",
      "value": "post-uuid"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Update successful

dataobject[]

Result rows

countinteger

Number of rows returned

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