rihad wrote:
> Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> UPDATE Foo foo
> SET ...
> FROM LEFT JOIN Bar bar USING(common_field)
> WHERE blah='blah' AND bar.common_field IS NULL;
> 
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "JOIN"
> 
> 
> I know I'm misusing UPDATE ... FROM because I don't really want Bar's
> values to go into Foo, but only using them for a conditional update
> (atomically I hope).

Oh, you mean:

UPDATE foo
SET ...
WHERE blah = 'blah'
  AND NOT EXISTS (
        SELECT 1 FROM baz WHERE foo.common_field = baz.common_field
  )

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