Re: [SQL] Updating

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Bob Kruger wrote:

>
> Thanks for all who assisted with my previous question on grouping.
>
> I would like to do an update of a table with the results of a query on
> another.
>
> For example:
>
> table vehcost
>
> id serial
> po varchar(12)
> veh_no varchar(8)
> cost real
> comments varchar(30)
>
>
> table vehinfo
>
> id serial
> veh_no varchar(12)
> m_cost real
> ...
>
>
> I would like to take the sum of vehcost.veh_no and update that info to
> field vehinfo.m_cost.
>
> So far, I have worked with the following without success:
>
> update vehinfo set m_cost = (select sum(vehcost.cost) from vehcost group by
> veh_no) where vehinfo.veh_no = vehcost.veh_no ;

This query has an error. You can't use a subquery in `set m_cost = '
expression. So, I think you can't update your table with one query.
You need something like this:

create view tmp as select veh_no, sum(cost) from vehcost group by veh_no;

Now you have a view like your subquery.

And after that:

update vehinfo set m_cost = tmp.sum from tmp where
vehinfo.veh_no=tmp.veh_no;

Remember `from tmp' clause is PostgreSQL non-standard extension in SQL.

May be there are another solutions.

Mike.