In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What about
>> DELETE FROM staff JOIN users ...
>> then?

> I don't much care for that, mainly because in my mind "x JOIN y" should
> always be semantically equivalent to "y JOIN x".  I think we want a real
> clear syntactical separation between the deletion target table and the
> other tables.

Just one minor nit:

You're talking about "the deletion target table".  Sorry to mention
the M word again, but MySQL allows deleting from more than one table
at the same time.  Should we support that?


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