Re: UPDATE in a specific order

From: Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UPDATE in a specific order
Date: 2010-12-16 19:58:50
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> I need to make update of table1 with data on table2 in the order of id
> of table2

that looks like EAV. is it?

> I=B4m trying to do an update like this:

that's not going to work.

perhaps you can rewrite the from part to only return one row for every
table1_fk, this one row will combine several rows from table2

> The "FROM ( SELECT * FROM table2 ORDER BY id ) tHist" is a try to
> force a specific order on table2 to update table1
> but this isn=B4t working.

will only work if the optimiser picks index join on table 1

> There are some way to do this with a UPDATE statement ?

to do it with an update statement you need no more than one rows in the
from for each row in the target.

easiest non update statement approach is probably to use a plpgsql
function with a loop.

basically you need to find another way to do it.

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