Re: [Re: UPDATING and DELETING sub-classes ]

From: Ami Ganguli <ami(at)ganguli(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ami Ganguli <ami(at)ganguli(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Re: UPDATING and DELETING sub-classes ]
Date: 2000-07-06 19:45:56
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> It sounds like you are reading the documentation on the website.

Yup.

> Unfortunately those pages are a snapshot of docs for current development
> sources, not the prior release. It happens that this is an area Chris
> Bitmead has been changing recently --- 7.0.* and prior versions do NOT
> behave that way. AFAIK, delete/update don't work on subclasses at all
> in 7.0.*. The docs used to claim that "DELETE FROM parent*", etc,
> was the way to do it, but that never worked. You'll have to wait for
> 7.1 (or try current snapshot if you're brave). Sorry.

It depends on when 7.1 is likely to be released (or at least reasonably
stable). I can live with some problems for the next three months, but then I
need it to be stable as I move to production.

Is there an ETA for 7.1?

Thanks,
Ami.

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