Re: Table update problem works on MySQL but not Postgres

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Raymond C(dot) Rodgers" <sinful622(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table update problem works on MySQL but not Postgres
Date: 2010-09-01 00:22:30
Message-ID: 1283300550.7247.4.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:17 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> > This is where the interesting thing happens: On MySQL the query actually
> > works as intended, but it doesn't on PostgreSQL. As I said, I'm sure this is
> > not a bug in PostgreSQL, but the lack of a stupid user trick. While my
> > project is on MySQL, and I could theoretically leave my code as is to take
> > advantage of this trick, I'm sure I'd be a complete idiot to leave it
> > instead of fixing it.
>
> You have it backwards, mysql is broken, postgresql is not.

That is what he said.

JD

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