From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Hanno Wiegard <hwiegard@web.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Table alias in DELETE statements
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:03:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200209160403.g8G43Wr27435@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020914140726.Y14554-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au>
TODO has:
* Allow DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins [delete]
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> On the several occasions I've tried using table aliases in delete
> statements, it hasn't worked.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Hanno Wiegard wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've already checked the mailing archive but found nothing about
> > problems with the DELETE statement and table alias but it's not
> > mentioned in the docs. So the question for me is whether it is possible
> > to use a table alias in a DELETE statement or not, e.g.
> > DELETE FROM foo f WHERE f.ID > 3000 (more complicated cases in reality
> > and I really need the alias because the SQL is generated automaically
> > by a tool)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hanno Wiegard
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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>
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>
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