From: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:41:49 -0800
Message-ID: <43EA2D5D.6000304@obviously.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC56@nelson.osl.com>
References: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC56@nelson.osl.com>
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....
-Bryce
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