From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Kevin Kempter <cs_dba@consistentstate.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Update join performance issues
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:39:05 -0400
Message-ID: <4F7B35B9.50108@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7B3394.3030703@consistentstate.com>
References: <4F7B3394.3030703@consistentstate.com>
On 04/03/2012 01:29 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I have a query that wants to update a table based on a join like this:
>
> update test_one
> set f_key = t.f_key
> from
> upd_temp1 t,
> test_one t2
> where
> t.id_number = t2.id_number
Why is test_one in the from clause? update joins whatever is in the from
clause to the table being updated. You almost never need it repeated in
the from clause.
cheers
andrew
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