Re: Add Missing From? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Add Missing From?
Date
Msg-id 200408081948.23239.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Add Missing From?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Add Missing From?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Robert, Tom,

> I think you're wrong on both counts --- we do support UPDATE FROM, and
> it's not in the spec.

I can verify that it's not in SQL92.   Unless you've got a place they added a 
different syntax in 99 or 2003, Robert?

> What we don't have is an equivalent syntax for DELETE, and you're right
> that we probably ought to offer that before we deprecate add_missing_from.

Hmmm.  What would that look like?

DELETE FROM table
{FROM | WITH | USING | ?? }
WHERE ...

I think we don't have this mainly because, what word do we use?

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco


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