Re: How to use outer join in update

From: Ragnar <gnari(at)hive(dot)is>
To: Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>
Cc: Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to use outer join in update
Date: 2006-12-08 10:17:56
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On fös, 2006-12-08 at 10:09 +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote:
> Andrus wrote:
> > In my current DBMS I can use
> >
> > create table t1 ( f1 int, f2 int );
> > create table t2 ( f3 int, f4 int );
> > update t1 set f1=t2.f3 from t1 left join t2 on t1.f2=t2.f4
>
> That looks like a self-join on t1 without using an alias for the second
> instance of t1.
>
> I think you meant:
> update t1 set f1=t2.f3 from t2 where f2 = t2.f4

is this not effectively an INNER JOIN ?
the OP needed a LEFT JOIN.

gnari

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