Re: delete query using CTE

Le 13/03/2022 à 15:44, Roger Bos a écrit :
> Hello, trying to use CTE to remove duplicates from a table.  The DELETE 
> version does not work, but the SELECT version does, so I am not 
> understanding what the problem is.  Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> 
> Here is my query:
> 
> WITH cte AS
> ( SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY ticker, date ORDER BY 
> ticker, date) my_row_num FROM price_old)
> DELETE FROM cte WHERE my_row_num > 1;
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> ERROR: relation "cte" does not exist LINE 3: DELETE FROM cte WHERE 
> my_row_num > 1;
> 
> But when I run change the query to a select query it runs fine (in that 
> it returns all the duplicate rows). For example:
> 
> WITH cte AS
> ( SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY ticker, date ORDER BY 
> ticker, date) my_row_num FROM price_old)
> SELECT * FROM cte WHERE my_row_num > 1;
> 
> Sample output:
> 
> "US000000094541" "AAC" "2022-03-08 00:00:00-05" 9.75 9.76 9.75 9.75 
> 100215 9.75 9.76 9.75 9.75 100215 0 1 2
> "US000000094541" "AAC" "2022-03-09 00:00:00-05" 9.75 9.76 9.75 9.76 
> 111334 9.75 9.76 9.75 9.76 111334 0 1 2
> "US000000009823" "AAC" "2022-03-10 00:00:00-05" 9.75 9.76 9.74 9.74 
> 170474 9.75 9.76 9.74 9.74 170474 0 1 2
> "US000000090393" "ABCL" "2022-03-08 00:00:00-05" 8.19 8.545 7.81 8.22 
> 1984348 8.19 8.545 7.81 8.22 1984348 0 1 2
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger
> 

As Michael Lewis says, you can't use delete from cte but you can build 
your request to do the work with something like (example from you 
original request) :

WITH cte AS
( SELECT *
  , ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY b) my_row_num
  , ctid -- or pk or other unique identifier if exists
  FROM price_old
)
DELETE FROM tmp24
WHERE ctid IN (SELECT ctid FROM cte WHERE my_row_num = 1);

Benj