"John B. Scalia" <jscalia@cityblueprinting.com> writes:
> UPDATE my_table SET field1='new_value' AND SET field2='different_value'
> WHERE my_table_id = 'key';
The other responses have focused on your obvious syntax error, but I'm
assuming you didn't actually cut-and-paste that from your psql session.
> in psql, it reports that it has successfully updated one record.
> However, the record does not appear to be updated when I subsequently
> issue a SELECT for that record.
I'm wondering if you are checking from another transaction that doesn't
think the first one is committed yet. Are you using BEGIN/END or
autocommit-off mode?
regards, tom lane
