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From hstore Back to a Regular Record

Explore how to utilize the hstore extension in PostgreSQL to convert data from records to hstore and back, enabling you to audit changes such as modified artist names. Understand the use of functions like hstore() and populate_record() to track and display data changes, enhancing your ability to manage and query audit logs efficiently.

The hstore extension is able to cast data from a record to an hstore with the hstore() function and back again with the populate_record() function.

Use case: Changing the view using a function

Here’s an example using that function. We’ll find out if any artist’s name has been changed and display it when the change occurred, what the old name ...