From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:55:14 +0100
Message-ID: <43EA3082.1010804@logix-tt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EA2D5D.6000304@obviously.com>
References: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC56@nelson.osl.com>
<43EA2D5D.6000304@obviously.com>
Hi, Bryce,
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> 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....
Why do you think this won't work? (provided you add the missing ) and ; :-)
Markus
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