Re: Delete with join -- deleting related table entries?

Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Bryce,
>
> Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>
>
>> BEGIN;
>> DELETE FROM note WHERE issue_id IN (SELECT issue_id FROM isuse
>> WHERE reservation_id IN
>> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic)
>> );
>> DELETE FROM isuse WHERE reservation_id IN
>> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic);
>> DELETE FROM reservations WHERE reservation_id IN
>> (select reservation_id from reservations where date > magic);
>> COMMIT;
>>
>> I suppose I can do the subselect as a perl wrapper, but I was thinking
>> that maybe SQL could do it all for me....
>>
>
> Why do you think this won't work? (provided you add the missing ) and ; :-)
>
Wow. It worked. Cool. I guess the reservations don't get deleted
until they are not needed any more...

Not the fastest thing in the world. But it worked.