DELETE/DROP and inheritance

Why don't DELETE and DROP work with the *-notation for inherited
tables? I think they should, and I don't see why it should be
difficult to implement (but I cannot, not being C-literate).

albert=> create database tst;
CREATEDB
albert=> \c tst
connecting to new database: tst
tst=> create table a (id int4);
CREATE
tst=> create table b (id2 int4) inherits (a);
CREATE
tst=> delete from a*;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "*"

(here I would like to get "DELETE 0" instead)

tst=> drop table a*;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "a"

(here I would like to get "DROP" instead)

Bye,

Albert.

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