From: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Subject: Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:11:17 -0800
Message-ID: <43EA3445.9050401@obviously.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EA3082.1010804@logix-tt.com>
References: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC20CC56@nelson.osl.com>
<43EA2D5D.6000304@obviously.com>
<43EA3082.1010804@logix-tt.com>
Markus Schaber wrote:
> 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 ; :-)
>
Wow. It worked. Cool. I guess the reservations don't get deleted
until they are not needed any more...
Not the fastest thing in the world. But it worked.
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