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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200206101833.g5AIXj600263@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Efficient DELETE Strategies
In-Reply-To: <1023730428.4092.64.camel@taru.tm.ee>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:33:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>,
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> What about
> 
> DELETE relation_expr FROM relation_expr [ , table_ref [ , ... ] ]
>  	[ WHERE bool_expr ]
> 
> or
> 
> DELETE relation_expr.* FROM relation_expr [ , table_ref [ , ... ] ]
>  	[ WHERE bool_expr ]

So make the initial FROM optional and allow the later FROM to be a list
of relations?  Seems kind of strange.

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