On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:32:48PM -0500, MT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a C++ script to update postgresql database records. The
> user interacts with the script via an html form. That is, the user is
> presented with the data from a particular record in an html form and
> asked to update any number of fields in that record.
>
> To perform a multiple column update in postgres one does:
>
> UPDATE tablename
> SET column1 = 'blahblah',
> column2 = 'moreblahblah',
> column3 = 1234
> WHERE id = 555;
Heh, my cheap and hacky why is to end each column = value clause with a
comma. Then i finish it off with a "id=id WHERE ...". That clause becomes a
noop and the syntax is fine.
Oh yeah, check out the SQL injection attacks. Nasty :)
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