Re: [SQL] Inheritance and DELETE

> Enrico(dot)Scholz(at)informatik(dot)tu-chemnitz(dot)de writes:
> > CREATE RULE chg_fsO_on_dir_delete AS ON DELETE
> > TO directory
> > DO DELETE FROM fsObject* WHERE parent = OLD.fsOid;
>
> > But PostgreSQL is complaining with the message
> > 'ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "*"'
>
> Hmm. It looks like the grammar is set up to require a simple
> relation_name, rather than a relation_expr which would accept *,
> in DELETE statements. I think this is a bug --- I know no reason
> that DELETE wouldn't work as an inherited operation. Looks like
> the fix will take more than a one-line change, though.
>
> UPDATE doesn't look like it wants to deal with multiple targets
> either...

Added to TODO list:

* Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*

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