This is expected behavior for MySQL post version 4.1. Check out:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/DELETE.html
particularly the 'Note:' section just before the user comments. If you
use table aliases you must use those aliases to refer to the tables you
want to delete, not the table names
>Description:
Multi-delete stops working in all forms when used along with table
aliases, it gives an error saying
ERROR 1109 (42S02): Unknown table 'test_base' in MULTI DELETE
Which definately is NOT the case. After trying all kinds of
combinations I reliased that the pr