Re: Problems with bulk update

I have tried this
gforge=> UPDATE data_table
gforge-> SET field2_new=(SELECT new_id FROM mapping_table WHERE
old_id= data_table.field2_old);

and

gforge-> update data_table set field2_new_=mt.new_id FROM data_table dt,
mapping_table mt WHERE dt.field2_old=mt.old_id;

but initially I got error. "ERROR: column data_table.old_brand_id does
not exist"

It took me an eternity to realize that it is because of a missing entry
in the mapping table. I have added the record and the update run correctly.

Thank you very much

Kindest regards,
Venelin Arnaudov

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Venelin Arnaudov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I want to update the values of one column of a table based on the
>> matches in a second table
>
>> something like
>> update table1
>> set table1.field2_new=table2.new_id
>> from table2
>> where table1.field2_old=table2.old_id;
>
> Did you try it?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-update.html
>
> PG has a non-standard "FROM" extension for just this purpose.
>