Re: Urgent help needed- alias name in update statement

Venkat
Shouldn't the expression have an 'as'?

IE
UPDATE mytable AS x
SET x.name = 'asdf'
WHERE x.no = 1

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:21 +0530, venkatrao(dot)b(at)tcs(dot)com wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> In postgre, when i am trying to give alias name in update statement
> like below -
> ---------------------------------
> update mytable x
> set x.name = 'asdf'
> where x.no = 1
> -------------------------------
>
>
> is giving error - mytable is not having col x.
>
> We have migrated code from oracle to postgre 8.4. Is there any
> solution for this.
> (functions were compiled without any compilation errors - now when we
> are trying to run these we are getting problems)
>
> Please help..
>
> Venkat
>
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