David Greco wrote: > Need some help with UPDATE syntax. I am attempting to do something like this: > > WITH default_facility AS ( > SELECT facility_id, > inkjetorlabel > FROM engagement_facility_defs > WHERE engagement_facility_def_id = 8 > ) > UPDATE engagement_facilities SET ( > facility_id, > inkjetorlabel > ) > = ( default_facility.* ) > FROM default_facility > WHERE engagement_facilities.engagement_id =3 > > Postgres errors out on the SET() saying "number of columns does not match number of values". Also > tried default_facility.* without the parenthesis but it does not like that syntax. This example is a > bit simplified, in reality there are 90 columns in both lists. > > Is this syntax not possible? I have rewritten it to this form which works, but I rather like the CTE > syntax instead. The problem seems to be the "*". It works fine with CTE otherwise: CREATE TABLE test (id integer primary key, val text); INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, 'something'); WITH cte AS (SELECT 1 AS c1, 'other' AS c2) UPDATE test SET (id, val) = (cte.c1, CTE.c2) FROM cte WHERE id=1; Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
