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Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 11:30:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Updating 457 rows in a table
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On Sun, 19 May 2024, Christophe Pettus wrote:

> UPDATE people SET active=true WHERE id IN (...);
>
> The ... can either be an explicit list of the ids, or a SELECT id WHERE if
> you have a predicate that selects the appropriate ids.

Christophe,

That's a good idea; I can use a predicate to identify the rows to update.
That would be shorter than a long, comma-separated list.

Thanks,

Rich