Re: request for sql3 compliance for the update command - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: request for sql3 compliance for the update command
Date
Msg-id 873bsvsi1q.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: request for sql3 compliance for the update command  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: request for sql3 compliance for the update command  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

>     UPDATE totals SET
>       xmax = ss.xmax, xmin = ss.xmin, ...
>     FROM
>       (SELECT groupid, max(x) AS xmax, ... FROM details GROUP BY groupid) ss
>     WHERE groupid = ss.groupid;
> 
...
> 
> Of course this syntax isn't standard either ... but we already have it.


Did this patch ever make it in? It's not documented in the 8.0 documentation
for UPDATE at:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/dml-update.html


-- 
greg



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