FROM clause in UPDATE

From: "Slavisa Garic" <sgaric(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: FROM clause in UPDATE
Date: 2006-07-17 16:07:25
Message-ID: bcb558900607170907l5d840189tc3ec2c68619fcb91@mail.gmail.com
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Hi all,

Could someone tell me why this doesn't work in PostgreSQL 8.1.3 where it
works in v8.0.5 and earlier (i haven't tried versions between these two):

v8.1.3
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-bash-3.00$ psql -c "UPDATE NimrodGridRun
SET status = 'active', control = 'start'
WHERE status not in ('active', 'jsuspend')
AND NimrodGridRun.compute_id = 1
AND NimrodGridRun.agent_id = NimrodAgent.agent_id
AND NimrodAgent.status = 'active'
AND NimrodAgent.tag = '1'"
ERROR: missing FROM-clause entry for table "nimrodagent"
-bash-3.00$

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v8.0.5
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[slavisa: talvath - ~ (0)]: psql -c "UPDATE NimrodGridRun
SET status = 'active', control = 'start'
WHERE status not in ('active', 'jsuspend')
AND NimrodGridRun.compute_id = 1
AND NimrodGridRun.agent_id = NimrodAgent.agent_id
AND NimrodAgent.status = 'active'
AND NimrodAgent.tag = '1'"
UPDATE 0

The first query will work if I insert "FROM nimrodagent" just before the
WHERE clause,
Regards,
Slavisa

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