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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Add Missing From?
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Msg-id 200408101500.i7AF0Qq15552@candle.pha.pa.us
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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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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >   There is no way to specify a table alias for the deleted table in
> >   the DELETE WHERE clause because there is no FROM clause.
> 
> This description confuses two quite separate issues.

Yea, it does.

How is this text:

* Allow DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins
 There is no way to create a table alias for the deleted table for use in the DELETE WHERE clause.  The agreed approach
isto allow a USING clause to specify additional tables.  UPDATE already has an optional FROM clause for this purpose.
 

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