Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM
От | Steven Rosenstein |
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Тема | Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM |
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Msg-id | OF545A271F.B5FD775B-ON85256FA0.005EC116-85256FA0.005EDEB5@us.ibm.com обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM
Re: Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM |
Список | pgsql-performance |
This is probably a very trivial question and I feel foolish in even posting it, but I cannot seem to get it to work. SCENARIO (abstracted): Two tables, "summary" and "detail". The schema of summary looks like: id int serial sequential record id collect_date date date the detail events were collected The schema of detail looks like: id int serial sequential record id sum_id int the id of the parent record in the summary table details text a particular event's details The relationship is obvious. If I want to extract all the detail records for a particular date (2/5/05), I construct a query as follows: SELECT * FROM detail JOIN summary ON (summary.id=detail.sum_id) WHERE collect_date='2005-02-05'; Now... I want to *delete* all the detail records for a particular date, I tried: DELETE FROM detail JOIN summary ON (summary.id=detail.sum_id) WHERE collect_date='2005-02-05'; But I keep getting a parser error. Am I not allowed to use JOINs in a DELETE statement, or am I just fat-fingering the SQL text somewhere. If I'm *not* allowed to use a JOIN with a DELETE, what is the best workaround? I want to delete just the records in the detail table, and not its parent summary record. Thanks in advance for your help, --- Steve ___________________________________________________________________________________ Steven Rosenstein IT Architect/Developer | IBM Virtual Server Administration Voice/FAX: 845-689-2064 | Cell: 646-345-6978 | Tieline: 930-6001 Text Messaging: 6463456978 @ mobile.mycingular.com Email: srosenst @ us.ibm.com "Learn from the mistakes of others because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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