Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:37:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
To: "John B. Scalia" <jscalia@cityblueprinting.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Bug in psql - Postgresql 7.3.1?
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Shouldn't that be "UPDATE my_table SET field1 = 'new_value', field2 = 
'different_value' WHERE my_table_id = 'key';"?

Wei

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, John B. Scalia wrote:

> All,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm not certain if what I'm trying to do is legal, but if I execute a
> statement like:
> 
>  
> 
> UPDATE my_table SET field1='new_value' AND SET field2='different_value'
> WHERE my_table_id = 'key';
> 
>  
> 
> in psql, it reports that it has successfully updated one record.
> However, the record does not appear to be updated when I subsequently
> issue a SELECT for that record. I'll buy the fact that I may be using
> illegal syntax - I'm not SQL expert, but the update says it worked when
> in fact it did not. Should this have worked or should it have reported
> an error?
> 
>  
> 
> For record, this is Postgresql 7.3.1 on Solaris 9. Problem originally
> seen during a php4 script, but has been duplicated on the psql command
> line.
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>  
> 
> TIA,
> 
> John
> 
>