Inheritance and DELETE

Hi,

to represent objects of a filesystem I am using these tables:

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CREATE TABLE fsObject   -- an abstract filesystem-object
(       fsOid           serial,       name            text NOT NULL,       parent          int                    --  a
directoryid
 
);

CREATE TABLE files
(
) INHERITS (fsObject);


CREATE TABLE directory  -- can be the parent of a fsObject
(
) INHERITS (fsObject);

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Because chapter 9 (Inheritance) of the "User Guide" the documentation
is saying "Many of the commands that we have already discussed --
select, update and *delete* -- support this "*" notation...", I tried
to handle the deletion of a directory with this rule:

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CREATE RULE chg_fsO_on_dir_delete AS ON DELETE
TO directory
DO DELETE FROM fsObject* WHERE parent = OLD.fsOid;

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But PostgreSQL is complaining with the message

'ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "*"'



What is to correct syntax for the "*" in a DELETE-statement? 





Enrico

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