Thread: Possible feature request

I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize.

But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias 
on the target of an update statement.

I find myself often writing statements like:   UPDATE      some_really_long_table_name   SET      col1 = some_value,
 col2 = some_other_value   FROM      some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2   WHERE
some_really_long_table_name.col3= table2.col3      AND some_really_long_table_name.col4 = table2.col4   ;
 

What I'd like to write is:   UPDATE      some_really_long_table_name AS table1   SET      col1 = some_value,      col2
=some_other_value   FROM      some_other_really_long_table_name AS table2   WHERE      table1.col3 = table2.col3
ANDtable1.col4 = table2.col4   ;
 

Is this possible?  Not for 8.3, obviously, but maybe for 8.4?

Brian

On 7/25/07, Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize.
>
> But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias
> on the target of an update statement.
>

you can do this since 8.2:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-update.html

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