From: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:56:28 -0800
Message-ID: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC6E@nelson.osl.com> (raw)
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Owen Jacobson wrote:
>
> > BEGIN;
> > DELETE FROM note WHERE issue_id IN (SELECT issue_id FROM isuse
> > WHERE reservation_id = reservation_to_delete);
> > DELETE FROM isuse WHERE reservation_id = reservation_to_delete;
> > DELETE FROM reservations WHERE reservation_id =
> reservation_to_delete;
> > COMMIT;
> >
> > With an appropriate value or expression substituted into
> > reservation_to_delete. This would be the "hard way", but (as
> > it's in a single transaction) will still protect other
> > clients from seeing a partial delete.
>
> Yup, that's exactly how I delete reservations one a time. But here I
> need to select a few thousand reservations, and I don't think
> this will
> work:
> BEGIN;
> DELETE FROM note WHERE issue_id IN (SELECT issue_id FROM isuse
> WHERE reservation_id IN
> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic);
> DELETE FROM isuse WHERE reservation_id IN
> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic)
> DELETE FROM reservations WHERE reservation_id IN
> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic)
> COMMIT;
>
> I suppose I can do the subselect as a perl wrapper, but I was thinking
> that maybe SQL could do it all for me....
Further thinking produced the following functional example.
CREATE TABLE reservation (
reservation_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
date DATE NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE issue (
issue_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
reservation_id INTEGER NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE note (
issue_id INTEGER NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO reservation VALUES (1, '2006-01-01');
INSERT INTO reservation VALUES (2, '2006-01-15');
INSERT INTO reservation VALUES (3, '2006-02-01');
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (1, 1);
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (2, 1);
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (3, 2);
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (4, 2);
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (5, 3);
INSERT INTO issue VALUES (6, 3);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (1);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (2);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (3);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (4);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (5);
INSERT INTO note VALUES (6);
-- PostgreSQL 8.0 and prior
BEGIN;
DELETE FROM note
WHERE note.issue_id = issue.issue_id
AND issue.reservation_id = reservation.reservation_id
AND reservation.date > '2006-01-16';
DELETE FROM issue
WHERE issue.reservation_id = reservation.reservation_id
AND reservation.date > '2006-01-16';
DELETE FROM reservation WHERE date > '2006-01-16';
COMMIT;
-- PostgreSQL 8.1 and later
BEGIN;
DELETE FROM note USING issue, reservation
WHERE note.issue_id = issue.issue_id
AND issue.reservation_id = reservation.reservation_id
AND reservation.date > '2006-01-16';
DELETE FROM issue USING reservation
WHERE issue.reservation_id = reservation.reservation_id
AND reservation.date > '2006-01-16';
DELETE FROM reservation WHERE date > '2006-01-16';
COMMIT;
The version using subselects works fine, too.
-Owen
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