Hi, This has been broken in postgres for many years. But I have fixed it recently in current CVS. So you'll either have to wait for the next release or else risk a development version. Another option is to go to patches archive and manually apply the patch to 7.0.2 which wouldn't be that hard. Chris Bitmead. Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Hi, Postgresistas > > I'm running 7.0.2 in a Debian system, and a have this problem: > > SELECT * FROM some_base_table* > > works fine, but > > UPDATE some_base_table* SET a = b WHERE some_condition > > and > > DELETE FROM some_base_table* WHERE some_condition > > dosen't even parse: the parser says parser: error at or near "*" > > The question is Is this a bug in Postgres? or just my instalation? > > Thanks. > > PS. I really like the Object oriented features ( at leas as describe > in the docs ). It's a bad thing tha those dosen't work > > Regards. > > -- > ______________________________________________________ > > Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. > > Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl/ > ______________________________________________________