PostgreSQL DELETE

Research query: PostgreSQL DELETE · jobs: 1 · on-topic sources: 1 · review: Thin

Overview

Examples Delete all films but musicals: DELETE FROM films WHERE kind 'Musical'; Clear the table films: DELETE FROM films; Delete completed tasks, returning full details of the deleted rows: DELETE FROM tasks WHERE status = 'DONE' RETURNING *; Delete the row of tasks on which the cursor c_tasks is currently positioned: DELETE FROM tasks WHERE CURRENT OF c_tasks; Compatibility This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the USING and RETURNING clauses are PostgreSQL extensions, as is the ability to use WITH with DELETE. — PostgreSQL: Documentation: 16: DELETE (2026)

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PostgreSQL: Documentation: 16: DELETE (2026)

PostgreSQL: Documentation: 16: DELETE October 15, 2026: PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Released! (new this job) — source

Examples Delete all films but musicals: DELETE FROM films WHERE kind 'Musical'; Clear the table films: DELETE FROM films; Delete completed tasks, returning full details of the deleted rows: DELETE FROM tasks WHERE status = 'DONE' RETURNING *; Delete the row of tasks on which the cursor c_tasks is currently positioned: DELETE FROM tasks WHERE CURRENT OF c_tasks; Compatibility This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the USING and RETURNING clauses are PostgreSQL extensions, as is the ability to use WITH with DELETE. (new this job) — source

Documentation → PostgreSQL 16 Supported Versions: Current (18) / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 Development Versions: 19 / devel Unsupported versions: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.6 / 9.5 / 9.4 / 9.3 / 9.2 / 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 / 7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1 DELETE Prev Up SQL Commands Home Next DELETE DELETE — delete rows of a table Synopsis [ WITH [ RECURSIVE ] with_query [, ...] ] DELETE FROM [ ONLY ] table_name [ * ] [ [ AS ] alias ] [ USING from_item [, ...] ] [ WHERE condition | WHERE CURRENT OF cursor_name ] [ RETURNING { * | output_expression [ [ AS ] output_name ] } [, ...] ] Description DELETE deletes rows that satisfy the WHERE clause from the specified table. (new this job) — source

Review

Status Thin. Verified claims 3. On-topic sources 1 (reused 0). Dropped 0 collector hit(s) and 0 off-topic local claim(s). Conflicts 0. Coverage: postgresql, delete.

Map

Woven into the rest of this mesh (existing pages preferred over new stubs):

• PostgreSQL functions — shared label · topic overlap (weight 5)
• PostgreSQL INSERT — shared label · topic overlap (weight 5)
• PostgreSQL JSON — shared label · topic overlap (weight 5)
• PostgreSQL UPDATE — shared label · topic overlap (weight 5)

Provenance

Sealed job 080e6088866f7bc3ed71dfa7fdb59ec1. Shards: agent.scout. Dropped 0 off-topic collector hit(s) and 0 off-topic local claim(s). Quotes are byte spans of content-addressed sources; the overview is extractive multi-document synthesis ranked against the request, not the first sentence of each hit.