RETURNING clause with WHERE

Question

Hi friends,
Is there any way to restrict the values fetched using RETURNING caluse after an UPDATE?
For example, the following RETURNING caluse will fetch the new SALs of the DEPTs 10 and 20:
UPDATE EMP
SET SAL = SAL+100
WHERE DEPT IN (10,20)
RETURNING SAL BULK COLLECT INTO ARRAY_NEW_SAL;
Is it possible to fetch the new SALs of only DEPT 10? Anything like:
UPDATE EMP
SET SAL = SAL+100
WHERE DEPT IN (10,20)
RETURNING SAL BULK COLLECT INTO ARRAY_NEW_SAL WHERE DEPT = 10;
Edited by: 964559 on 30-May-2013 03:41

Answer 1

No, you can't.
The returning clause is used to return data from all the effected rows of the update. It's a part of PL/SQL, not SQL, so you cannot apply an SQL WHERE clause to it.
The RETURNING clause and the way you can use it are detailed in the documentation (what a surprise!)...
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25519/returninginto_clause.htm#LNPLS01354