Jean-Michel Pour? wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > Dear Friends, > > First, thank you very much for considering a fix on the GROUP BY issue. > I am starting a new thread about another issue: > > It seems that DELETE cannot understand INNER JOINS and needs HAVING. > > Read: > http://drupal.org/node/555562 (main message) > http://drupal.org/node/555648 > > I don't see why PostgreSQL would not be able to run queries like: > > DELETE h > FROM history AS h > INNER JOIN term_node AS tn ON (h.nid = tn.nid) > INNER JOIN term_data AS td ON (td.tid = tn.tid) > WHERE h.uid = 2067 AND td.vid = 2 > > Ultimately, why not allow: > > DELETE h, tn > FROM history AS h > INNER JOIN term_node AS tn ON (h.nid = tn.nid) > INNER JOIN term_data AS td ON (td.tid = tn.tid) > WHERE h.uid = 2067 AND td.vid = 2 > > IMHO this would improve compliance towards other database systems. To me > this seems to be in the reasonable scope of compatibility.
Which "other database systems"? Only MySQL? If it is MySQL-only, we are unlikely to add it. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
