Re: Add Missing From?

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add Missing From?
Date: 2004-08-09 04:12:41
Message-ID: 200408090012.41588.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Sunday 08 August 2004 23:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > Hmmm. What would that look like?
> >
> > DELETE FROM table
> > {FROM | WITH | USING | ?? }
> > WHERE ...
> >
> > I think we don't have this mainly because, what word do we use?
>
> Yup, eggzackle. The implementation would really be trivial, but
> previous discussion hung up on the problem of finding a syntax
> people liked ...
>

Well, as yall have pointed out, the feature is not sql spec (for some reason I
thought it had been put in) so since the update syntax seems quite similar to
oracles, perhaps they can provide a pointer on delete syntax as well? I
can't seem to find my oracle syntax book, anyone have one handy ?

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Robert Treat
Build A Better Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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