Re: select & insert

Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>

From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
To: pgsql-novice@postgreSQL.org, Mauricio Alarcon <malarcon@webdepot.com.co>
Date: 2000-12-20T18:33:28Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
Mauricio Alarcon <malarcon@webdepot.com.co> writes:

> How I can make an update to a register from a select query?
> I have this
> 
> update table1 set r1=(select r1+1 from table1);

Try this:

update table1 set r1=(select T1.r1+1 from table1 T1);

Note that if there is more than one row in the table1, then you might
want to limit the select clause by some condition.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
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