Re: Table Qualifiers in Update Statement - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Table Qualifiers in Update Statement
Date
Msg-id 20051101145919.GB21137@svana.org
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In response to Table Qualifiers in Update Statement  ("Marcel Thibault" <mthibault@novell.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:21:18AM -0700, Marcel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are table qualifiers acceptable in UPDATE statements in a PostgreSQL DB.
>
> For instance is this not allowed?
>
> update tablea set tablea.fielda='valuea';

No, but you don't really need to since the table name is already given
in the update statement. Why do you want to give it again?

Have a nice day,
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