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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net> Cc: Postgres95-development <pg95-dev@ki.net> Subject: Re: [PG95-DEV] DELETE statement > > Does the man page for DELETE need to be corrected? It gives as syntax > > DELETE instance_variable [FROM fromlist] [WHERE qual] . > > But the actual syntax appears to be > > DELETE FROM classname WHERE qual . > > -- > Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803 > San Jose, California > This patch fixes the delete manual page in 2.0:
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.\" This is -*-nroff-*-
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.\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here....
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.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/delete.l,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:23 scrappy Exp $
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.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/delete.l,v 1.2 1996/09/23 08:39:53 scrappy Exp $
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.TH DELETE SQL 11/05/95 Postgres95 Postgres95
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.SH NAME
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delete \(em delete instances from a class
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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\fBdelete\fR instance_variable [ \fBfrom\fR from_list ] [ \fBwhere\fR qual ]
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\fBdelete\fR \fBfrom\fR class_name [ \fBwhere\fR qual ]
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR Delete
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removes instances which satisfy the qualification,
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.IR qual ,
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from the class specified by
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.IR instance_variable .
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.IR Instance_variable
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is either a class name or a variable assigned by
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.IR from_list .
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.IR qual
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from the specified class.
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If the qualification is absent, the effect is to delete all instances
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in the class. The result is a valid, but empty class.
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.PP

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