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SQL update fields of one table from fields of another one

Asked 2010-05-04T08:27:14.663
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I have two tables:

A [ID, column1, column2, column3]
B [ID, column1, column2, column3, column4]

A will always be subset of B (meaning all columns of A are also in B).

I want to update a record with a specific ID in B with their data from A for all columns of A. This ID exists both in A and B.

Is there an UPDATE syntax or any other way to do that without specifying the column names, just saying "set all columns of A"?

I'm using PostgreSQL, so a specific non-standard command is also accepted (however, not preferred).

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you can build and execute dynamic sql to do this, but its really not ideal

answered 2010-05-04T08:29:43.160

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