In article <16580(dot)1092071243(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> What about
>> DELETE FROM staff JOIN users ...
>> then?
> I don't much care for that, mainly because in my mind "x JOIN y" should
> always be semantically equivalent to "y JOIN x". I think we want a real
> clear syntactical separation between the deletion target table and the
> other tables.
Just one minor nit:
You're talking about "the deletion target table". Sorry to mention
the M word again, but MySQL allows deleting from more than one table
at the same time. Should we support that?