Re: Why the "UPDATE tab SET tab.col" is invalid? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:39 AM, postgres_sure <postgres_sure@163.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found "Do not include the table's name in the specification of a target
> column
>                  — for example, UPDATE tab SET tab.col = 1 is invalid." in
> the documentation.
>
> Some people usually like to update table by alias. They want to add this
> feature.

Is this syntax described in the SQL standard?

merlin