Re: request for sql3 compliance for the update command

Patrick,

No, they support the syntax:

update table set (col1, col2, col3) = ( val1, val2, val3 )

I have a customer with a rather large application which uses this
syntax, because they were using informix. There is also a rather
interesting 4GL project called aubit which is on sourceforge. They would
also like to see this supported for the same reasons.

Dave

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 15:02, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > I have a large customer who is converting from informix to postgres and
> > they have made extensive use of
> >
> > update table set (col...) = ( val...)
> >
> > as a first pass would it be possible to translate this in the parser to
> >
> > update table set col=val
> >
> > It would appear that this is SQL3 compliant
> >
> > <set clause> ::=
> > <update target> <equals operator> <row value designator>
> >
> > <update target> ::=
> > <object column>
> > | <left paren> <object column list> <right paren>
> >
> >
> > or can someone think of another way?
>
> I don't understand the original problem. What does informix give you? A
> text file full of "update table set ()=()" which you then try to feed
> into postgres? In that case, why not pass said text file through a sed or
> perl script first?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
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