On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:26 AM, RedBaron <dheeraj.gup...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I understand that update against multiple tables is 
> non-standard. However, I think I am trying to update only one table (events).
> The equivalent of what I am trying to do is
> update event set is_deleted=1 where (sid,cid) in (select event.sid,event.cid 
> from event join iphdr on .... where iphdr.ip_dst=XXX);
> But MySQL-5.1.52 does not allow us to reference event in the in clause
> 
> So I figured using a join would be a good idea. "Get the sid,cid of relevant 
> events and set their is_deleted to 1"

I agree that's the best query to use.    But Event here doesn't have a 
surrogate primary key column ?     You could use that instead in your WHERE 
criterion: WHERE event.id IN (select event.id FROM ...)





> 
> I can't hard-code params beacuse their are over 20 searchable parameters and 
> they can occur in almost any combination. Probably another way (long and not 
> good) is to fire a query and do a
> for a in result: 
>     a.isdel = True
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, 28 June 2013 19:44:29 UTC+5:30, Michael Bayer wrote:
> 
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 8:23 AM, RedBaron <dheeraj...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > But when I try to write it in SQLALchemy 
> > 
> > inner_q = 
> > session.queryEvent.sid.label('sid'),Event.cid.label('cid')).options(lazyload('*')).join(Event.iphdr).filter(IpHdr.ip_dst==func.inet_aton("192.168.2.10")).subquery()
> >  
> > update_stmt = 
> > tEvent.__table__.update().where(and_(inner_q_s.c.sid==Event.sid,inner_q_s.c.cid==Event.cid)).values({'is_deleted':True,})
> >  
> > session.get_bind().execute(update_stmt) 
> > 
> > I get the correct statement but parameter order is wrong. From the debug 
> > 
> > 2013-06-28 17:49:53,999 INFO  [sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine][worker 4] 
> > UPDATE event, (SELECT event.sid AS sid, event.cid AS cid FROM event LEFT 
> > OUTER JOIN iphdr ON event.sid = iphdr.sid AND event.cid = iphdr.cid WHERE 
> > event.is_deleted = false AND iphdr.ip_dst = inet_aton(%s)) AS anon_1 SET 
> > event.is_deleted=%s WHERE anon_1.sid = event.sid AND anon_1.cid = event.cid 
> > 
> > 2013-06-28 17:49:54,000 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine (1, 
> > '192.168.2.10') 
> > As can be seen the order is reversed to what should ideally be there. 
> > 
> > In general, the update value is always the first and then all the search 
> > parameters follow as per their order. 
> > 
> > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? 
> 
> I've created http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/ticket/2768 for this, and to 
> understand what's going wrong one needs to appreciate that UPDATE.. against 
> multiple tables is a non-standard syntax, where different backends put the 
> second table in different places.   this demo illustrates the issue: 
> 
> from sqlalchemy.sql import table, column, select 
> from sqlalchemy.dialects import mysql 
> 
> t1 = table('t1', column('x')) 
> t2 = table('t2', column('y'), column('z')) 
> 
> subq = select([t2]).where(t2.c.y == 7).alias() 
> 
> stmt = t1.update().values(x=5).where(t1.c.x == subq.c.z) 
> 
> compiled = stmt.compile(dialect=mysql.dialect()) 
> 
> # default impl, UPDATE..FROM .  y follows x 
> print stmt 
> 
> # mysql impl, UPDATE A, B, x follows y 
> print compiled 
> 
> # but still getting y follows x 
> print compiled.positiontup 
> 
> 
> I don't have too great of a workaround here, in this case you can hardwire 
> the IP number argument using literal_column:   
> func.inet_aton(literal_column("'192.168.1.1'"))
> 
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