I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize.
But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias
on the target of an update statement.
I find myself often writing statements like:
UPDATE
some_really_long_table_name
SET
col1 = some_value,
col2 = some_other_value
FROM
some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2
WHERE
some_really_long_table_name.col3 = table2.col3
AND some_really_long_table_name.col4 = table2.col4
;
What I'd like to write is:
UPDATE
some_really_long_table_name AS table1
SET
col1 = some_value,
col2 = some_other_value
FROM
some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2
WHERE
table1.col3 = table2.col3
AND table1.col4 = table2.col4
;
Is this possible? Not for 8.3, obviously, but maybe for 8.4?
Brian
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