From: Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: deleting rows in specific order
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:00:33 -0400
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20061009175632.057feec0@pop6.sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610092207210.24332@mazsola.iit.uni-miskolc. hu>
At 04:14 PM 10/9/06, Daniel Drotos wrote:
>What is the best way to do something like:
>
>delete from tablename where something order by somefield...
You cannot, because it doesn't make sense. The "order by" clause is not
valid on delete statement. Queries from other processes that start while
your delete is running will either see all the deleted rows or (perhaps)
they will see none of them.
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