Re: [GENERAL] table alias for update

2012-03-25 Thread Bosco Rama
haman...@t-online.de wrote: > > is there a way to use a table alias for the target table in an UPDATE query? > I would like to avoid spelling out things like that in psql: > > update myverylongtablename set col1 = r.col1repl from repltable r > where myverylongtablename.id = r.id and myverylongt

[GENERAL] table alias for update

2012-03-25 Thread hamann . w
is there a way to use a table alias for the target table in an UPDATE query? I would like to avoid spelling out things like that in psql: update myverylongtablename set col1 = r.col1repl from repltable r where myverylongtablename.id = r.id and myverylongtablename.col2 > 0 Regards Wolfgang Ham

Re: [GENERAL] Table alias and inherited tables

2010-05-05 Thread Amol Chiplunkar
nevermind.. guess there was a problem with the query condition itself regards - Amol On 05/04/10 22:42, Amol Chiplunkar wrote: Hi, I notice that for the following: Table Base with say columns col1, col2 Table Child1 inherits(Base) Table Child2 inherits(Base) With check constraints and rule

[GENERAL] Table alias and inherited tables

2010-05-05 Thread Amol Chiplunkar
Hi, I notice that for the following: Table Base with say columns col1, col2 Table Child1 inherits(Base) Table Child2 inherits(Base) With check constraints and rules to insert the rows to appropriate tables defined. Inserts work as expected. select * from Base; returns rows from both the child

Re: [GENERAL] Table Alias

2000-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, technically by SQL92 I believe the second query should be an error > since the table reference "bar b" should not be exporting the name "bar" > unless I'm misreading the spec... Correct. SQL sez that "FROM bar b" exposes the correlation name "b",

Re: [GENERAL] Table Alias

2000-08-29 Thread Darrin Ladd
Thanks, that makes sense. Although, I'd much rather have an error then the wrong data. :( Cheers, Darrin >From: Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Darrin Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Table Alias >Date: Tue,