Patrick, No, they support the syntax:
update table set (col1, col2, col3) = ( val1, val2, val3 ) I have a customer with a rather large application which uses this syntax, because they were using informix. There is also a rather interesting 4GL project called aubit which is on sourceforge. They would also like to see this supported for the same reasons. Dave On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 15:02, Patrick Welche wrote: > > I have a large customer who is converting from informix to postgres and > > they have made extensive use of > > > > update table set (col...) = ( val...) > > > > as a first pass would it be possible to translate this in the parser to > > > > update table set col=val > > > > It would appear that this is SQL3 compliant > > > > <set clause> ::= > > <update target> <equals operator> <row value designator> > > > > <update target> ::= > > <object column> > > | <left paren> <object column list> <right paren> > > > > > > or can someone think of another way? > > I don't understand the original problem. What does informix give you? A > text file full of "update table set ()=()" which you then try to feed > into postgres? In that case, why not pass said text file through a sed or > perl script first? > > Cheers, > > Patrick -- Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cramer Consulting ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html