Mirko Pace <mirko...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've ran an update statement like this (obviously wrong, I know!):

> update my_table
>   set boolean_field = true AND
>   my_notes = 'something'
> where id in
>    (select id from my_table order by random() limit 4000);

> in my psql client and I had a "UPDATE 4000" result but, correctly, anything
> was changed in my_table.

> So... why pg didn't raise a warning about syntax issue?

Because there is no syntax error? "TRUE AND my_notes =
'something'" is a valid expression (and equivalent to
"my_notes = 'something'").

Tim


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