Daniel Futerman wrote:
Is it possible to have UPDATE JOIN queries in PostgreSQL?
Yes:
UPDATE target
FROM othertable;
As far as I know Pg can only do an inner join on the update target. This
can be easily be turned into an outer join with something like:
UPDATE target
FROM
--- El lun 23-jun-08, Daniel Futerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
De: Daniel Futerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Asunto: [GENERAL] Update Join Query
A: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Fecha: lunes, 23 junio, 2008, 4:43 pm
Hi,
Looking for the correct syntax for an UPDATE LEFT JOIN query i
--- El lun 23-jun-08, Daniel Futerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
De: Daniel Futerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Asunto: [GENERAL] Update Join Query
A: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Fecha: lunes, 23 junio, 2008, 4:43 pm
Hi,
Looking for the correct syntax for an UPDATE LEFT JOIN query i
update foo
set foo_id = g.goo_id
from goo g
where foo.foo_id = g.goo_id and foo.foo_id is not null
I think. :)
-Mark
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:43 +0200, Daniel Futerman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking for the correct syntax for an UPDATE LEFT JOIN query in
> PostgreSQL.
>
> The equivalent MySQL query
Hi,
Looking for the correct syntax for an UPDATE LEFT JOIN query in PostgreSQL.
The equivalent MySQL query is :
UPDATE
Foo f LEFT JOIN Goo g on f.Foo_ID = g.Goo_ID
SET
f.Foo_ID = g.Goo_ID
WHERE
f.Foo_ID IS NOT NULL;
When I try to run this in Postgres, i get
