On 23 Apr 2019, at 3:42pm, Charles Leifer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Simon -- this is just a minimal example. The WHERE clause is needed
> because, unless I would provide a CASE WHEN for every single (key, value),
> then the UPDATE would set the "extra" value of any unmatched key, value to
> NULL.
You can use ELSE:
UPDATE "bu" SET "extra" = CASE "key"||"value"
WHEN 'k1'||1 THEN 100
WHEN 'k2'||2 THEN -200
WHEN 'k3'||3 THEN 30
ELSE "extra"
END;
But I still think that using multiple UPDATE statements will still be far
faster.
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