From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> |
Cc: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: DELETE FROM t WHERE EXISTS |
Date: | 2003-02-28 20:34:45 |
Message-ID: | 20030228123036.L2988-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I wanted to delete "old" rows from a table. These are the rows I
> want to keep:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM clp
> ORDER BY commit_date
> LIMIT 100
>
> So I tried this:
>
> DELETE FROM clp
> WHERE NOT EXISTS (
> SELECT *
> FROM clp
> ORDER BY commit_date
> LIMIT 100);
>
> Uhh uhh, nothing deleted. I don't understand why.
As long as the inner select returns at least 1 result NOT EXISTS is
going to return false (you haven't correlated the two queries at all).
> OK, I can do this instead:
>
> DELETE from clp
> where commit_log_id NOT in (
> SELECT commit_log_id
> FROM clp
> ORDER BY commit_date
> LIMIT 100);
>
> Can you think of a better way?
Possibly something like:
DELETE FROM clp
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
select * from (select * from clp order by commit_date limit 100) tmp
where tmp.commit_log_id = clp.commit_log_id
);
But I haven't tried it for stupid errors, and am not sure that it'd end up
being any better than NOT IN anyway.
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