Re: Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM
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Msg-id 11561.1107719397@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Are JOINs allowed with DELETE FROM  (Steven Rosenstein <srosenst@us.ibm.com>)
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Steven Rosenstein <srosenst@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Thank you for the link to the documentation page.  I forgot to mention that
> we're still using version 7.3.  When I checked the 7.3 documentation for
> DELETE, there was no mention of being able to use fields from different
> tables in a WHERE clause.  This feature must have been added in a
> subsequent release of PostgreSQL.

No, it's been there all along, if perhaps not well documented.

            regards, tom lane

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