Re: UPDATE in a specific order - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Jasen Betts
Subject Re: UPDATE in a specific order
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In response to UPDATE in a specific order  ("Luiz K. Matsumura" <luiz@planit.com.br>)
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> I need to make update of table1 with data on table2 in the order of id
> of table2

that looks like EAV. is it?

> I=B4m trying to do an update like this:

that's not going to work.

perhaps you can rewrite the from part to only return one row for every
table1_fk,  this one row will combine several rows from table2

> The "FROM ( SELECT * FROM table2 ORDER BY id  ) tHist"  is a try to
> force a specific order on table2 to update table1
> but this isn=B4t working.

will only work if the optimiser picks index join on table 1

> There are some way to do this with a UPDATE statement ?

to do it with an update statement you need no more than one rows in the
from for each row in the target.

easiest non update statement approach is probably to use a plpgsql 
function with a loop.

basically you need to find another way to do it.




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