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| author | Marc G. Fournier | 1996-09-23 08:39:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc G. Fournier | 1996-09-23 08:39:53 +0000 |
| commit | ba628ef13d668a9252cbe09d1c1a4fc2cea3a144 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d443ca729d47e9c6e67b8a2c2694eda49b2a2ba /doc/man | |
| parent | 9c6135fb15523d54ac073dd815ef9addbed20cf2 (diff) | |
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
Cc: Postgres95-development <pg95-dev@ki.net>
Subject: Re: [PG95-DEV] DELETE statement
>
> Does the man page for DELETE need to be corrected? It gives as syntax
>
> DELETE instance_variable [FROM fromlist] [WHERE qual] .
>
> But the actual syntax appears to be
>
> DELETE FROM classname WHERE qual .
>
> --
> Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
> San Jose, California
>
This patch fixes the delete manual page in 2.0:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/delete.l | 12 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/delete.l b/doc/man/delete.l index 5836a4756e1..dc567d791c5 100644 --- a/doc/man/delete.l +++ b/doc/man/delete.l @@ -1,22 +1,18 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/delete.l,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:23 scrappy Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/delete.l,v 1.2 1996/09/23 08:39:53 scrappy Exp $ .TH DELETE SQL 11/05/95 Postgres95 Postgres95 .SH NAME delete \(em delete instances from a class .SH SYNOPSIS .nf -\fBdelete\fR instance_variable [ \fBfrom\fR from_list ] [ \fBwhere\fR qual ] +\fBdelete\fR \fBfrom\fR class_name [ \fBwhere\fR qual ] .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .BR Delete removes instances which satisfy the qualification, -.IR qual , -from the class specified by -.IR instance_variable . -.IR Instance_variable -is either a class name or a variable assigned by -.IR from_list . +.IR qual +from the specified class. If the qualification is absent, the effect is to delete all instances in the class. The result is a valid, but empty class. .PP |