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From Andreas
Subject How update a table within a join efficiently ?
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Hi,
how would I update a table within a join in a more efficient way?

E.g. the folowing case:
table_a holds abstract elements. One column represents "priority" which 
can be based on information of other tables.
table_b might hold such details in a column "size" for about 3000 of 
80000 records out of table_a.

I'd like to do this:
UPDATE table_a
SET table_a.prio = CASE WHEN size >= 10 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END
FROM table_a JOIN table_b USING (table_a_id)

This doesn't work.
But the folowing does, though it looks not efficient with those 3000 
SELECTs instead of one preparing JOIN that fetches the relevant info.  :(

UPDATE table_a
SET prio =
(
SELECT CASE WHEN size >= 10 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END
FROM table_b
WHERE table_a.table_a_id = table_b.table_a_id
)
WHERE table_a_id IN (SELECT table_a_id FROM table_b);

Is there a better way?


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