Commit 66fc528d authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Remove somebody's flight of fancy about an UPDATE with ORDER BY and LIMIT.

parent 4c0efd3a
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......@@ -232,20 +232,6 @@ UPDATE employees SET sales_count = sales_count + 1 WHERE id =
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Now that all the papers are signed, update the most recently closed
deal of the travelling salesperson who closed the Rocket Powered
Skates deal with the Acme Corporation.
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UPDATE employees SET last_closed_deal = deal.id
FROM accounts JOIN deals ON (account.id = deal.account_id)
WHERE deal.employee_id = employees.id
AND deal.name = 'Rocket Powered Skates'
AND accounts.name = 'Acme Corporation'
ORDER BY deal.signed_date DESC LIMIT 1;
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<para>
Attempt to insert a new stock item along with the quantity of stock. If
the item already exists, instead update the stock count of the existing
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