How to join to delete

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From: "Chris Velevitch" <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: How to join to delete
Date: 2006-05-02 06:53:58
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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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From: Noel Faux <noel(dot)faux(at)med(dot)monash(dot)edu(dot)au>
To: Chris Velevitch <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: How to join to delete
Date: 2006-05-02 07:03:09
Message-ID: 4457042D.2040307@med.monash.edu.au
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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
> --
> Chris Velevitch
> Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
> www.flashdev.org.au
>
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From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Chris Velevitch <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to join to delete
Date: 2006-05-02 08:18:30
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Chris Velevitch wrote:
> I'm using pg 7.4.5 on Win XP SP1.

The first official release for Windows was 8.0, and there have been
several bugfixes to 7.4.x since then. Upgrade as soon as is practical.

> 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.

Perhaps something like:
DELETE FROM B WHERE bk IN (SELECT ak FROM A WHERE ak2 = x)

Or maybe rephrase it as EXISTS for 7.4

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

From: "Chris Velevitch" <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: How to join to delete
Date: 2006-05-02 13:00:55
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On 5/2/06, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:
> Chris Velevitch wrote:
> > I'm using pg 7.4.5 on Win XP SP1.
>
> The first official release for Windows was 8.0, and there have been

I'm the cygwin version of pg for testing.

> several bugfixes to 7.4.x since then. Upgrade as soon as is practical.

I'm deploying to a shared hosted database and they are currently
supporting 7.4.x.

Chris
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Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
www.flashdev.org.au