Uriel Wittenberg writes:
> Carl, I appreciate your response, but I did check both the table of > contents and the index. I did not do a string search on "update," if > that's what you had in mind. I admit that the search function is as good as one might wish. And I agree that finding things in the manual is not easy. There are some things that are hard to find even if you know that they're there, but I have no idea what to do about it. > Multi-table updates and deletes are such fundamental features of SQL > that it doesn't occur to new users like me that it could be unsupported. Indeed. It'll be a big day for MySQL when 4.1 is released (and stable). For now the only(?) workaround is to use locks, and that's horribly ugly, inefficient, and much work to do. > Maybe we're all foolish and lazy, but maybe also it'd be smarter if the > relevant doc section mentioned the lack of support. At least they could point out that the syntax given for a statement or function is exhaustive, and possibly the manual could be better at pointing out in what version different things were added (although this is mainly useful for 3.x versus 4.x, since upgrading to the latest stable version is something you're supposed to do anyway). //C - has 60 mails to read now for some reason. -- Carl Troein - Círdan / Istari-PixelMagic - UIN 16353280 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://pixelmagic.dyndns.org/~cirdan/ Amiga user since '89, and damned proud of it too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
