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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Table update problem works on MySQL but not Postgres
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Msg-id 1283300550.7247.4.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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In response to Re: Table update problem works on MySQL but not Postgres  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:17 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> > This is where the interesting thing happens: On MySQL the query actually
> > works as intended, but it doesn't on PostgreSQL. As I said, I'm sure this is
> > not a bug in PostgreSQL, but the lack of a stupid user trick. While my
> > project is on MySQL, and I could theoretically leave my code as is to take
> > advantage of this trick, I'm sure I'd be a complete idiot to leave it
> > instead of fixing it.
>
> You have it backwards, mysql is broken, postgresql is not.

That is what he said.

JD

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