Re: returning does not act as expected after viewing documentation

From: lennart rolland <lennartrolland(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: returning does not act as expected after viewing documentation
Date: 2019-09-23 22:19:05
Message-ID: CAOnjvA-XRVW3QkFNjgZovQBxdT8DNyXfU0rr-dtx-W1h1bEVRw@mail.gmail.com
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Facepalm.

Please disregard my rookie mistake!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 00:18 David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 2:45 PM PG Doc comments form <
> noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> update batch_log
>> set status=('in-progress'),
>> updated_at=now()
>> [...]
>> returning id, batch_log.update_at
>> ;
>>
>
>
>> column batch_log.update_at does not exist
>> LINE 14: returning id, batch_log.update_at
>> HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "batch_log.updated_at".
>>
>> This does not make a whole lot of sense. It is recommending that I do
>> what I
>> am doing!
>>
>> Also I don't see why this would fail.
>>
>
> Its informing you, apparently correctly, of a possible typo in your
> query. You wrote: returning ... "batch_log.update_at" but the spelling for
> that field is in past tense "batch_log.updated_at" - note the "d" on the
> end of the word "update".
>
> David J.
>
>

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