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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-06-23 20:33:25 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-06-23 20:33:25 +0000
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Provide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
section of the docs. Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
index eb114263a5f..6e440be5ca2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml,v 1.19 2009/06/17 21:58:49 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml,v 1.20 2009/06/23 20:33:25 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="dml">
<title>Data Manipulation</title>
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ INSERT INTO products (product_no, name, price) VALUES
</para>
<para>
- To perform an update, you need three pieces of information:
+ To update existing rows, use the <xref linkend="sql-update"
+ endterm="sql-update-title"> command. This requires
+ three pieces of information:
<orderedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>The name of the table and column to update</para>