Re: How to join to delete - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi Chris,

I think the best bet would be to use a nested select:

Delete from A WHERE A.bk = (SELECT bk FROM B) where A.ak = x;

Cheers
Noel

Chris Velevitch wrote:
> I'm using pg 7.4.5 on Win XP SP1.
>
> I want to delete rows from a table B, but need to join it to another
> table A in order to select the rows in B to be deleted.
>
> Eg. Delete from A join B on (A.bk = B.bk) where A.ak = x;
>
> but only delete rows from B.
>
> How do I acheive this?
>
>
> Chris
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