在 postgresql 中基于数组搜索更新列

Question

id | name                   | status
---+------------------------+--------------------------------
1  | {'Tom','Jerry','Hary'} | { 'Waiting','Waiting',Waiting'}

I want to update status column based on name.

For example, I want to update status column to "Arrived" for name "Hary"

id | name                   | status
---+------------------------+--------------------------------
1  | {'Tom','Jerry','Hary'} | { 'Waiting',Waiting','Arrived'}

Note: I can achieve by using below query. But i don't want to use index positioning. Is there any alternative to achieve above result?

UPDATE table
SET status[3] = 'Arrived'
WHERE name[3]='Hary'

Answer 1

As commented by S-Man, you should just fix your data model and store each name/status on a separate record.

Otherwise, you can use array_position() :

update table set status[ array_position(name, 'Harry') ] = 'Arrived'
where 'Harry' = any(name)

Answer 2

GMB has shown you how to do it, but I think you should also see a normalized design (just in case you don't know how that would look):

Name table
-----------
id     int
name   varchar(70)

Status table
------------
id     int
status varchar(100)

namestatus table
----------------
nameid   int
statusid int

Data

name table
1 Tom
2 Jerry
3 Hary

status table
1 Waiting
2 Arrived

namestatus table
1    1
2    1
3    1

Update statement

UPDATE namestatus
set statusid = 2 
where nameid = 3