I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize.
But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias
on the target of an update statement.
I find myself often writing statements like: UPDATE some_really_long_table_name SET col1 = some_value,
col2 = some_other_value FROM some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2 WHERE
some_really_long_table_name.col3= table2.col3 AND some_really_long_table_name.col4 = table2.col4 ;
What I'd like to write is: UPDATE some_really_long_table_name AS table1 SET col1 = some_value, col2
=some_other_value FROM some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2 WHERE table1.col3 = table2.col3
ANDtable1.col4 = table2.col4 ;
Is this possible? Not for 8.3, obviously, but maybe for 8.4?
Brian
