Re: Update ordered

On 27/01/2014 16:36, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> Hi all.
> I want an UPDATE query to update my project's project_number in chronological order (according to the project's
"created"-column)and tried this:
 
> with upd as(
>     select id from project order by created asc
> ) update project p set project_number = get_next_project_number() from upd where upd.id = p.id;
> However, the olders project doesn't get the smalles project_number.

I think that makes sense. When you UPDATE ... FROM an another relation, nothing is guaranteed
about the order of the from_list join. Therefore "order by created asc" in your CTE is not gonna
achieve much.

Your better write this as a procedure. (as you have already suggested)

> Any idea how to achive this?
> Thanks.
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