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From: Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quoting issue from ODBC
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 17:32:52 -0700
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On 2/7/23 17:23, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 5:20 PM Brad White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     For example, this is the literal code in VBA
>
>     Access: connection.Execute "UPDATE [" & strTable & "] SET [" &
>     strTable & "].[InsertFlag] = Null" _
>         & " WHERE ((([" & strTable & "].[InsertFlag])=" & lngCurrUID &
>     "));", , adCmdText Or adExecuteNoRecords
>     Note that InsertFlag is bracketed the same way in both instances.
>
>     PSQL: UPDATE "public"."Orders" SET InsertFlag=NULL  WHERE
>     ("InsertFlag" = 166 )
>     Note that InsertFlag is quoted once but not the other time.
>     Of course this gives the error: column "insertflag" of relation
>     "Orders" does not exist at character 35.
>
>
> Either VBA is doing some query munging or that concatenated string 
> isn't the one that is producing the error.  Which suggests that maybe 
> you have a string somewhere that is not written correctly that need to 
> be fixed so it doesn't produce this error.
>
> David J.
>
Should the SET clause have a table alias at all?  I get an error with

    update foo set foo.id = something;





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