Re: question on UPDATE TABLE - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: question on UPDATE TABLE
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Msg-id 20020823124920.H23447-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to question on UPDATE TABLE  (Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>)
Responses Re: question on UPDATE TABLE  (Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>)
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On 23 Aug 2002, Wei Weng wrote:

> I have this query
>
> UPDATE ONLY ContentSummaries
> SET AccessID = '685d96de-1d09-11b2-beec-0001031d54ce'
> FROM Categories AS cat, ContentTypes AS ct, ContentSummaries AS cs LEFT
> OUTER JOIN Publishers AS pb ON (pb.PublisherID = cs.PublisherID)
> WHERE cs.CreationDate IS NOT NULL AND cat.CategoryID = cs.CategoryID AND
> ct.ContentTypeID = cs.ContentTypeID AND cat.CategoryID =
> '391b11d0-1d09-11b2-a312-0001031d54ce'

You do realize you're getting two copies of ContentSummaries in this
update and only one is actually being constrained afaics (and it's not the
one being updated).  Perhaps something like
cs.ContentTypeID=ContentSummaries.ContentTypeID or something like that
in the where clause?




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