Prisma does nothing unless we use await
Hello. I don't use await when doing update() in Prisma because I don't want to wait. However, when I do this, Prisma doesn't perform the update.
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#ask-ai if you'd like a quick chat with the bot anyway!This is expected behavior in Prisma.
Prisma Client operations like update() are "lazy" and will only execute if you either use
await, chain them with .then(), or otherwise handle the returned Promise. If you simply call update() without awaiting or chaining, the query will not be sent to the database and no update will occur.I don't think this makes sense, because someone unaware of it would realize too late that an operation that shouldn't have been expected didn't occur. This is designed to keep the query pending for those who want to run it later, but they could do it differently. It's very confusing.