Re: [Q]updating multiple rows with Different values

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "V S P" <toreason(at)fastmail(dot)fm>
Cc: "Gerhard Heift" <ml-postgresql-20081012-3518(at)gheift(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Q]updating multiple rows with Different values
Date: 2008-11-23 19:08:30
Message-ID: dcc563d10811231108i3ff036acmf401342edbbc6f19@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:43 AM, V S P <toreason(at)fastmail(dot)fm> wrote:
> Thank you very much
> this is exactly what I am looking for
>
> As well as the example provided
> ' case when id=1 then 10 '
>
> - it will work as well.
>
>
> Now just one more question:
> I will not have a lot of values to update (less than a 1000
> at a time) -- but the values for col1 will be text that is
> up to 64K. So I will not be able to construct SQL strings
> and just send them (because it will probably exceed the character
> limits for the SQL statements).

There are no character limits for sql statements in pgsql

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