trying to write a bit of logic as one query, can't seem to do it under 2

From: Jonathan Vanasco <postgres(at)2xlp(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: trying to write a bit of logic as one query, can't seem to do it under 2
Date: 2010-04-21 23:55:42
Message-ID: 9C156AE1-DAA5-414A-9511-ADCCAE617DFC@2xlp.com
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I'm trying to write a bit of logic as 1 query, but I can't seem to do
it under 2 queries.

i'm hoping someone can help

the basic premise is that i have an inventory management system , and
am trying to update the quantity available in the "shopping
cart" (which is different than the independently tracked quantity
requested ).

the logic is fairly simple:
cart items should show the quantity_requested as available if that
number is <= the number of items in stock, otherwise they should show
the max number of items available

the solution i ended up with, is to just update the cart_items with
the entire quantity_available per product, and then fix that in a
second pass.

i'm wondering if this can be *efficiently* done within a single update
statement. i couldn't figure out how to do this in a single update,
and not make multiple queries to find the actual qty_available

UPDATE
cart_item
SET
qty_requested_available = ( SELECT qty_available FROM stock where
stock.id = stock_id)
;

UPDATE
cart_item
SET
qty_requested_available =
CASE
WHEN
qty_requested_available > qty_requested THEN qty_requested
ELSE
qty_requested_available
END
;

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