On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> Now I was wondering if a DELETE statement could be rewritten with the
>>>> same "strategy":
>>>
>>> Not at the moment. There have been discussions of allowing the same
>>> table name to be respecified in USING, but there are complications.
>>
>> However it works.
>>
>> DELETE FROM some_table USING some_table AS s
>> WHERE
>> some_table.col1 = s.col1 AND
>> some_table.col2 = s.col2 AND
>> some_table.id < s.id;
>>
>
> But that's not an outer join
Oh, yes. I just lost the discussion line. Sorry.
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