Re: [QUESTIONS] How fully will subselects be implemented?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su (Vadim B(dot) Mikheev)
Cc: herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] How fully will subselects be implemented?
Date: 1998-02-25 14:29:03
Message-ID: 199802251429.JAA01734@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Herouth Maoz wrote:
> >
> > I'm developing a new app, and I constantly run into the need of updating
> > things by data in related columns.
> >
> > Since UPDATE doesn't syntatctically support joins, this means that
> > subselects in UPDATE are a real must.

OK, now I see he only wants the subquery in the where clause. That
clearly does work.

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