Re: Slow Bulk Delete

In response to Jon Nelson :
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Pierre C <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> wrote:
> > - or use a JOIN delete with a virtual VALUES table
> > - or fill a temp table with ids and use a JOIN DELETE
>
> What is a virtual VALUES table? Can you give me an example of using a
> virtual table with selects, joins, and also deletes?

Something like this:

test=# select * from foo;
c1
----
1
2
3
4
(4 rows)

test=*# delete from foo using (values (1),(2) ) as bla where foo.c1=bla.column1;
DELETE 2
test=*# select * from foo;
c1
----
3
4
(2 rows)

values (1), (2) as bla -> returns a 'virtual table' bla with one
column column1.

Andreas
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