Shiny not updating SQL value

Question

I am using the following function in R to update values in my remote MariaDB table:

update_row <- function (table_name, column_name, id, value) {    
  query <- sqlInterpolate(pool, 
                          paste0(
                            "UPDATE ", table_name,
                            " SET ", column_name, "=", "'",value,"'",
                            " WHERE id", " = ", id))
  dbExecute(pool, query)
}

using this function outside of Shiny works fine. However, integrating this function into shiny does not work.

Here is a minimal example:

ui <- fluidPage(
  actionButton("go", "Go")
  )

server <- function(input, output) {

   eventReactive(input$go, {
    update_row("table", "first_name", "1", "Jesus")
  })

}

shinyApp(ui, server)

When I run this shiny app and push the action button the sql table does not get updated. I also tried using observeEvent with the same result.