This is probably a very trivial question and I feel foolish in even posting
it, but I cannot seem to get it to work.
SCENARIO (abstracted):
Two tables, "summary" and "detail". The schema of summary looks like:
id int serial sequential record id
collect_date date date the detail events were collected
The schema of detail looks like:
id int serial sequential record id
sum_id int the id of the parent record in the summary table
details text a particular event's details
The relationship is obvious. If I want to extract all the detail records
for a particular date (2/5/05), I construct a query as follows:
SELECT * FROM detail JOIN summary ON (summary.id=detail.sum_id) WHERE
collect_date='2005-02-05';
Now... I want to *delete* all the detail records for a particular date, I
tried:
DELETE FROM detail JOIN summary ON (summary.id=detail.sum_id) WHERE
collect_date='2005-02-05';
But I keep getting a parser error. Am I not allowed to use JOINs in a
DELETE statement, or am I just fat-fingering the SQL text somewhere. If
I'm *not* allowed to use a JOIN with a DELETE, what is the best workaround?
I want to delete just the records in the detail table, and not its parent
summary record.
Thanks in advance for your help,
--- Steve
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