Updating from select

From: Thrasher <thrasher(at)fibers(dot)upc(dot)es>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Updating from select
Date: 2002-10-02 17:11:19
Message-ID: 3D9B28B7.4000903@fibers.upc.es
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Hi all

I have two related tables:

CREATE TABLE trans_log (
id serial,
date timestamp not null,
cost numeric(12,5) NULL
);

CREATE TABLE products_log (
id serial,
trans integer not null references trans_log(id),
cost numeric(12,5) NOT NULL
);

So, a transaction can have from zero to a lot of products (1:N)

Ok. I have data in the tables. The transaction tables have their id and
date, but no costs, so costs = 0.00000 for all transactions.

The products do have their cost set.

I can do a

SELECT trans, SUM(cost) FROM products_log GROUP BY trans;

to get the total amount of each transactions.

What I would like is to update the transactions table with the sum of
its products cost, some kind of

UPDATE trans_log t SET t.cost =
(SELECT SUM(p.cost) FROM products_log p WHERE p.trans = t.id)

But I'm not able.

Thanks in advance

Thrasher

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