Re: [HACKERS] Possible feature request

2007-07-25 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 7/25/07, Brian Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize. But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias on the target of an update statement. you can do this since 8.2: http://www.postgresql.org/doc

[HACKERS] Possible feature request

2007-07-25 Thread Brian Hurt
I'm not sure if this is the right venue for this- if it isn't, I apologize. But a feature that I'd like to see is the ability to put an 'as' alias on the target of an update statement. I find myself often writing statements like: UPDATE some_really_long_table_name SET col1 =