Re: [SQL] Inheritance and DELETE - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] Inheritance and DELETE
Date
Msg-id 199909271944.PAA12964@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [SQL] Inheritance and DELETE  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-sql
> Enrico.Scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes:
> > CREATE RULE chg_fsO_on_dir_delete AS ON DELETE
> > TO directory
> > DO DELETE FROM fsObject* WHERE parent = OLD.fsOid;
> 
> > But PostgreSQL is complaining with the message
> > 'ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "*"'
> 
> Hmm.  It looks like the grammar is set up to require a simple
> relation_name, rather than a relation_expr which would accept *,
> in DELETE statements.  I think this is a bug --- I know no reason
> that DELETE wouldn't work as an inherited operation.  Looks like
> the fix will take more than a one-line change, though.
> 
> UPDATE doesn't look like it wants to deal with multiple targets
> either...

Added to TODO list:
* Allow DELETE and UPDATE to use inheritance using tablename*          

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