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Bracketed items "[]" have more detail.
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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- Last updated: Mon Aug 9 21:39:00 EDT 2004
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+ Last updated: Tue Aug 10 11:00:16 EDT 2004
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The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
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@@ -271,12 +271,12 @@ Commands
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The use of C-style backslashes (.e.g. \n, \r) in quoted strings is not
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SQL-spec compliant, so allow such handling to be disabled.
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- * Allow DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins [delete]
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+ * Allow DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins
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- There is no way to specify use a table alias for the deleted table in
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- the DELETE WHERE clause because there is no FROM clause. Various
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- syntax extensions to add a FROM clause have been discussed. UPDATE
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- already has such an optional FROM clause .
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+ There is no way to create a table alias for the deleted table for use
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+ in the DELETE WHERE clause. The agreed approach is to allow a USING
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+ clause to specify additional tables. UPDATE already has an optional
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+ FROM clause for this purpose .
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* Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT
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* Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes, remove /contrib/reindex
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