DELETE FROM t WHERE EXISTS

From: "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: DELETE FROM t WHERE EXISTS
Date: 2003-02-28 17:16:11
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Hi folks,

I wanted to delete "old" rows from a table. These are the rows I
want to keep:

SELECT *
FROM clp
ORDER BY commit_date
LIMIT 100

So I tried this:

DELETE FROM clp
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM clp
ORDER BY commit_date
LIMIT 100);

Uhh uhh, nothing deleted. I don't understand why.

OK, I can do this instead:

DELETE from clp
where commit_log_id NOT in (
SELECT commit_log_id
FROM clp
ORDER BY commit_date
LIMIT 100);

Can you think of a better way?
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

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