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:

diff --git a/doc/man/delete.l b/doc/man/delete.l
index 5836a4756e1390af266fe79ae5251895d00ab408..dc567d791c54b6285ff5c34618f1441176bef3cb 100644 (file)
--- 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