From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: julionti@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #17662: Error on UPDATE with ()
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:13:32 -0400
Message-ID: <4011529.1666707212@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17662-a7d95eb9537054b5@postgresql.org>
References: <17662-a7d95eb9537054b5@postgresql.org>
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> The bellow command return : ERROR: source for a multiple-column UPDATE item
> must be a sub-SELECT or ROW() expression
> update table set
> (column)=(value)
> where 1=2
The error is telling you what to do. You should write:
update table set
(column) = ROW(value)
where 1=2
The ROW keyword is optional for a multi-column row, since
(v1,v2) couldn't mean anything else. But if there's just
one item, the parentheses are noise; they don't turn it
into a row.
regards, tom lane
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