Re: How to use outer join in update

Andrus wrote:
> In my current DBMS I can use
>
> create table t1 ( f1 int, f2 int );
> create table t2 ( f3 int, f4 int );
> update t1 set f1=t2.f3 from t1 left join t2 on  t1.f2=t2.f4

That looks like a self-join on t1 without using an alias for the second
instance of t1.

I think you meant:
update t1 set f1=t2.f3 from t2 where f2 = t2.f4

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