Thread: Table Qualifiers in Update Statement

Hello,

are table qualifiers acceptable in UPDATE statements in a PostgreSQL DB.

For instance is this not allowed?

update tablea set tablea.fielda='valuea';

Thanks,

Marcel Thibault

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:21:18AM -0700, Marcel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are table qualifiers acceptable in UPDATE statements in a PostgreSQL DB.
>
> For instance is this not allowed?
>
> update tablea set tablea.fielda='valuea';

No, but you don't really need to since the table name is already given
in the update statement. Why do you want to give it again?

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