| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Atsushi Ogawa <atsushi(dot)ogawa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Allow an alias for the target table in UPDATE |
| Date: | 2005-11-29 01:39:22 |
| Message-ID: | 200511290139.jAT1dMC01653@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Atsushi Ogawa wrote:
> I am interested in a following item in TODO.
>
> o Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
> UPDATE/DELETE
> This is not SQL-spec but many DBMSs allow it.
>
> I think that this functionality is useful for the migration from
> other RDBMS. However the SQL92 spec does not allow an alias for
> the target table in UPDATE.
> Is it still TODO? If it is TODO, I will try it.
Yes, this is still a valid TODO item.
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