Re: Table alias in DELETE statements - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Table alias in DELETE statements
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Msg-id 20020914140726.Y14554-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Table alias in DELETE statements  (Hanno Wiegard <hwiegard@web.de>)
Responses Re: Table alias in DELETE statements  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On the several occasions I've tried using table aliases in delete
statements, it hasn't worked.

Chris

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Hanno Wiegard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've already checked the mailing archive but found nothing about
> problems with the DELETE statement and table alias but it's not
> mentioned in the docs. So the question for me is whether it is possible
> to use a table alias in a DELETE statement or not, e.g.
> DELETE FROM foo f WHERE f.ID > 3000 (more complicated cases in reality
> and I really need the alias because the SQL is generated automaically
> by a tool)?
>
> Thanks,
> Hanno Wiegard
>
>
>
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