Re: how to merge a table from another DB

Could you do...

UPDATE mytable SET mycolumn =
(
SELECT myothercolumn
FROM myothertable
WHERE myothertable.primarykey = mytable.primarykey
)

Not sure how this works in PostgreSQL, but I do it all the time in
Oracle (note only one table definition in subselect)

thanks!

~ Troy Campano ~

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:55, Hought, Todd wrote:
> I have a bit of a dilemma, I'm fairly new to PG, and not quite sure how
> to do this:
> I have a DB that has been basically 'forked' - a copy of the original
> was made for a handful of users to play with without messing with the
> live DB. Now, they would like to know if the changes they have made to
> the forked db can be merged back in to the live one. A change to one
> column of every row in a certain table. How can I update just that field
> in every row of the db without harming the existing data already in that
> table?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> -Todd
>
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