On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
UPDATE waterchem SET waterchem.easting = s.easting waterchem.northing = s.northing FROM sites AS s WHERE waterchem.site = s.name;
Thomas, For the record, running this pushed me to the correct syntax: UPDATE waterchem SET easting = s.easting northing = s.northing FROM sites AS s WHERE waterchem.site = s.name; The target does not want the table name repeated; postgres looks for a column named 'waterchem.easting'. Regards, Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general