Re: DELETE FROM t WHERE EXISTS

What about

select * into temp rows_to_keep from clp order by commit_date limit 100;
truncate clp;
insert into clp select * from rows_to_keep;

Dima.

Dan Langille wrote:
> 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?