begin update ... syntax error - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Kemin Zhou
Subject begin update ... syntax error
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Msg-id 407867FE.1030501@ferring.com
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Responses Re: begin update ... syntax error  (Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net>)
Re: begin update ... syntax error  (Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>)
List pgsql-sql
I was trying to speed up a simple update query

fri=# begin
fri-# update tabA set nobegin=tmp.nobegin, noend=tmp.noend
fri-# from tmp
fri-# where tabA.acc=tmp.acc;
ERROR:  syntax error at or near "update" at character 7

The same query can be run with no problem if not starting with BEGIN.

Does mean that BEGIN cannot preceed UPDATE?

Or I am making some obvious miskate?

Kemin




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