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commit    d82e9f72b967dcd0b6c507286e4d552c51a291e1
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Tue Jun 23 20:33:25 2009 +0000
First released in: 8.4.0

    Provide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
    section of the docs.  Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.


 doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
index eb114263a5f..6e440be5ca2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml,v 1.19 2009/06/17 21:58:49 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml,v 1.20 2009/06/23 20:33:25 tgl Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="dml">
  <title>Data Manipulation</title>
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ INSERT INTO products (product_no, name, price) VALUES
   </para>
 
   <para>
-   To perform an update, you need three pieces of information:
+   To update existing rows, use the <xref linkend="sql-update"
+   endterm="sql-update-title"> command.  This requires
+   three pieces of information:
    <orderedlist spacing="compact">
     <listitem>
      <para>The name of the table and column to update</para>


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