On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:52:36 -0700
"Peter Headland" <pheadland@actuate.com> wrote:
> I can get the rows I want to update like this:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM queue
> WHERE id = p_queue_id
> ORDER BY rank
> LIMIT p_number_of_items;
>
> Of course, there may not be p_number_of_items available in the queue.
>
> I want to update all the rows in the cursor in the same way:
>
> UPDATE queue SET assigned = TRUE;
Assuming that there is a unique identifier on queue, let's call it
queue_id, you should be able to do something like this:
UPDATE queue SET assigned = TRUE WHERE queue_id IN (SELECT queue_id FROM queue WHERE id = p_queue_id ORDER BY
rank LIMIT p_number_of_items);
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