From: | Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | How update a table within a join efficiently ? |
Date: | 2009-07-10 08:07:46 |
Message-ID: | 4A56F6D2.7070802@gmx.net |
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Hi,
how would I update a table within a join in a more efficient way?
E.g. the folowing case:
table_a holds abstract elements. One column represents "priority" which
can be based on information of other tables.
table_b might hold such details in a column "size" for about 3000 of
80000 records out of table_a.
I'd like to do this:
UPDATE table_a
SET table_a.prio = CASE WHEN size >= 10 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END
FROM table_a JOIN table_b USING (table_a_id)
This doesn't work.
But the folowing does, though it looks not efficient with those 3000
SELECTs instead of one preparing JOIN that fetches the relevant info. :(
UPDATE table_a
SET prio =
(
SELECT CASE WHEN size >= 10 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END
FROM table_b
WHERE table_a.table_a_id = table_b.table_a_id
)
WHERE table_a_id IN (SELECT table_a_id FROM table_b);
Is there a better way?
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