using limit with delete

From: Chris Smith <chris(at)interspire(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: using limit with delete
Date: 2005-04-07 01:51:10
Message-ID: 4254920E.5070604@interspire.com
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Hi all,

I'm trying to use a limit clause with delete, but it doesn't work at the
moment (are there plans to add this - I could try to do up a patch ?).

eg.

delete from table where x='1' limit 1000;

(so truncate is out - I have a 'where' clause).

Is there another way to approach this?

I'm trying to delete records through a webapp and if there are 500,000
records for example, I can't really leave the page open and expect it to
finish...

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