Re: using limit with delete

For the archives...

Using 7.4 so IN() is a little slower, so I rewrote it slightly to be

DELETE FROM table WHERE EXISTS (select x from table .... LIMIT ...);

Works very nicely :)

Thanks again.

Neil Conway wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to use a limit clause with delete, but it doesn't work at
>> the moment
>
>
> It isn't in the SQL standard, and it would have undefined behavior: the
> sort order of a result set without ORDER BY is unspecified, so you would
> have no way to predict which rows DELETE would remove.
>
>> delete from table where x='1' limit 1000;
>
>
> You could use a subquery to achieve this:
>
> DELETE FROM table WHERE x IN
> (SELECT x FROM table ... ORDER BY ... LIMIT ...);
>
> -Neil
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