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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>
Subject: Re: Efficient DELETE Strategies
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Tom,

> >> If so, what's their syntax?
>=20
> > MSSQL seems to guess what the user wants.
>=20
> Gack.  Nothing like treating mindless syntax variations as a "feature"
> list...

I vote that we stick to a strick SQL92 interpretation, here.=20=20=20
1) It's standard
2) Strict syntax on DELETE statements is better.

Personally, I would *not* want the database to "guess what I want" in a del=
ete=20
statement; it might guess wrong and there go my records ...

Heck, one of the things I need to research how to turn off in PostgreSQL is=
=20
the "Add missing FROM-clause" feature, which has tripped me up many times.=
=20=20

--=20
-Josh Berkus