Re: help with "delete joins"

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 18:26, Robert Treat wrote:
> create table foo (a int, b int, c int, d text);
>
> create table bar (a int, b int, c int);
>
> insert into foo values (1,2,3,'a');
> insert into foo values (1,2,4,'A');
> insert into foo values (4,5,6,'b');
> insert into foo values (7,8,9,'c');
> insert into foo values (10,11,12,'d');
>
> insert into bar values (1,2,3);
> insert into bar values (7,8,9);
> insert into bar values (10,11,12);
>
> what i want to do is:
>
> delete * from foo where not (foo.a = bar.a and foo.b=bar.b and
> foo.c=bar.c) ;
>
> so i end up with
>
> postgres=# select * from foo;
> a | b | c | d
> ---+---+---+---
> 1 | 2 | 4 | A
> 4 | 5 | 6 | b
> (2 rows)
>
> but thats not valid sql, is there some way to accomplish this?
>

ok, i have a solution from the other end:

create table baz as select * from foo except (select foo.* from foo,bar
where foo.a = bar.a and foo.b=bar.b and foo.c=bar.c);

but i'd still be interested in a delete based method :-)

Robert Treat
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