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deleting multiple rows

From
Dennis Gearon
Date:
A very simple SQL question, LOL.

If I want to delete multiple rows, I can use '||' to do it like this, right?

DELETE FROM TableName
WHERE
    column = value1 ||
    column = value2 ||
    column = value4 ||
    column = value5
;

Re: deleting multiple rows

From
Stephan Szabo
Date:
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote:

> A very simple SQL question, LOL.
>
> If I want to delete multiple rows, I can use '||' to do it like this, right?

|| is generally concatenate.  You'll want to use OR.

> DELETE FROM TableName
> WHERE
>     column = value1 ||
>     column = value2 ||
>     column = value4 ||
>     column = value5
> ;

Re: deleting multiple rows

From
Oliver Elphick
Date:
On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 19:03, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> A very simple SQL question, LOL.
>
> If I want to delete multiple rows, I can use '||' to do it like this, right?
>
> DELETE FROM TableName
> WHERE
>     column = value1 ||
>     column = value2 ||
>     column = value4 ||
>     column = value5
> ;

Wrong!

 || is for string concatenation.

Possibly you mean:

  WHERE column = value1 OR column = value2 OR ...

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Re: deleting multiple rows

From
"Dmitri Bichko"
Date:
As others have pointed out '||' is concatenation, you are looking for
'OR'.
But possibly a nicer way is '... WHERE column IN (value1, value2,
value4, value5);'

Dmitri

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Gearon [mailto:gearond@cvc.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:03 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] deleting multiple rows


A very simple SQL question, LOL.

If I want to delete multiple rows, I can use '||' to do it like this,
right?

DELETE FROM TableName
WHERE
    column = value1 ||
    column = value2 ||
    column = value4 ||
    column = value5
;



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