On Freitag, 20. Juni 2008, Gregory Williamson wrote: | For reasons best left unmentioned, I need to update entries in a table from | a backup; I need to do all entries. | | For reasons eluding my sleep deprived eyes this fails in every variation I | can think of: | | update foo set foo.foo_name2=foo_old.foo_name2 where foo.foo_id = | foo_old.foo_id; ERROR: missing FROM-clause entry for table "foo_old" Does update foo set foo.foo_name2 = foo_old.foo_name2 from foo_old where foo.foo_id = foo_old.foo_id; work for you? | Could someone please hit me with a clue-stick ? This is crucial and yet I | am stumbling over something. Since I am not updating foo_old I am baffled | as to what this messsage really means. I've tried "where foo_old.foo_id = | foo.foo_id ... same message. Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----
