I don't think it is possible at least not with one query. You can limit the numbers of record to delete, but at least until 4.1 there is no offset. Probably you can do it with a subselect like this
delete from where to_uid=1 and read_timestamp>0 and timestamp<(select timestamp from messages where to_uid=1 and read_timestamp>0 order by timestamp desc limit 100,1) HTH -- Dobromir Velev [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.websitepulse.com/ On Friday 21 October 2005 11:44, Eric Persson wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to delete from a table with some sort of offset? I did > the following select query, which selects a message from a message table. > > select id, subject from messages where to_uid=1 and read_timestamp>0 > order by timestamp desc limit 3,1; > > The reason is I only want it to be 3 messages per to_uid, so id thought > I would be able to delete from the third message and forward with > something like. > > delete from messages where to_uid=1 and read_timestamp>0 order by > timestamp desc limit 3,1000; > > What I basically want is it to delete all messages above 100 for each > user, any clues on how to solve this? > > Best regards, > Eric -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
