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...

regards, tom lane