Re: the column in Update

Thanks but in the doc's it uses the term 'columnname'.  The real issue is the
tablename.columnname is supported in MySQL and I'm trying to support Postgres
and MySQL with a single code routine.
John
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 03:31, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Probably because the bit after the SET is a "column-name" not a
> reference to a column. There's no point qualifying it in any way since
> the tablename is given as part of the UPDATE statement.
>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:33:55PM -0800, John Fabiani wrote:
> > From the 7.4 docs:
> >  A column can be referenced in the form
> >
> > correlation.columnname
> >
> > correlation is the name of a table (possibly qualified with a schema
> > name), or an alias for a table defined by means of a FROM clause, or one
> > of the key words NEW or OLD. (NEW and OLD can only appear in rewrite
> > rules, while other correlation names can be used in any SQL statement.)
> > The correlation name and separating dot may be omitted if the column name
> > is unique across all the tables being used in the current query. (See
> > also Chapter 7.)
> >
> > So then why does this not work:
> > Update tablename set tablename.columnName = 'somedata' where .....
> >
> > John
> >
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