Hibernate envers - How to store only updated values

Question

I am using Hibernate Envers for my Auditing. Post-update and post-insert works fine.

I have a requirement where I need to audit only the updated columns in the audit tab

Answer 1

What happens if you dont configure envers listener for post-insert?

I mean if you take out post-insert listener from your config?

 <listener class="org.hibernate.envers.event.AuditEventListener" type="post-insert"/>

Answer 2

When you annotate an entity with @Audited, you're controlling which properties Envers should inspect when changes occur. Those properties are then compared between the old and new state and if any differ, Envers will write a new audit record with the new state values for all audited properties.

In other words, Envers won't write a new audit row with only the modified properties you have toggled for audit. It will write a new audit row with all audited properties if any of them change.