Holger Klawitter <holger(at)klawitter(dot)de> writes:
> Upgrading from 7.0.3 to 7.1(rc4) went very smooth - but a small
> issue came up:
> The following statement does not work any more:
> update l set i=2 from longname l where l.i=1;
I'd say it's a fluke that that ever was accepted. Given the obvious
ambiguity of interpretation (suppose there is a table named l?), it
should be rejected IMHO.
There has been some talk of allowing
update longname [as] l set ...
but we do not currently accept that.
regards, tom lane