Inheritance and DELETE

Hi,

to represent objects of a filesystem I am using these tables:

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CREATE TABLE fsObject -- an abstract filesystem-object
(
fsOid serial,
name text NOT NULL,
parent int -- a directory id
);

CREATE TABLE files
(
) INHERITS (fsObject);

CREATE TABLE directory -- can be the parent of a fsObject
(
) INHERITS (fsObject);

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Because chapter 9 (Inheritance) of the "User Guide" the documentation
is saying "Many of the commands that we have already discussed --
select, update and *delete* -- support this "*" notation...", I tried
to handle the deletion of a directory with this rule:

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CREATE RULE chg_fsO_on_dir_delete AS ON DELETE
TO directory
DO DELETE FROM fsObject* WHERE parent = OLD.fsOid;

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But PostgreSQL is complaining with the message

'ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "*"'

What is to correct syntax for the "*" in a DELETE-statement?

Enrico

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