On 10/21/2010 10:45 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Rob Sargent <robjsarg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Brian Hirt <bh...@me.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> There are only two tables in the query. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Tim, >>>> >>>> No, your query is written incorrectly. I don't understand why you come on >>>> to this list all hostile and confrontational. Regardless, people still >>>> try to help you and then you still ignore the advice of people that are >>>> giving you the solutions to your problems. >>> >>> Maybe he's used to paid commercial support where people are often >>> quite rude and hostile to the support staff to try and "motivate" them >>> or something? I've seen it before for sure. >>> >>> Again, OP, what does EXPLAIN say about this query? >>> >> >> Maybe I should re-read, but I didn't feel any confrontation. >> Frustration for sure. OP has clearly tried pretty hard, on some tricky >> bits too, but I'm betting all for naught if (as seems likely) it's just >> mistaken sql. "update from" is NOT straight forward. > > True. His only real snark was in reponse to the "let me google that > for you" link. OTOH, he's arguing with Tom Lane about whether his SQL > is well formed. There's arguing on the internet is stupid, then > there's arguing with Tom Lane about SQL is stupid.
Have to admit when I saw that I said to myself OP needs someone to tell him "whoa, big fella". I've been in similar situations where I was "sure" of one thing and the problem must be elsewhere, when of course I was wrong about the one thing... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
