Expanding DELETE/UPDATE returning

Rusty Conover <rconover@infogears.com>

From: Rusty Conover <rconover@infogears.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-02-27T03:24:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

I didn't see this on the TODO list, but if it is my apologies.  Is it  
in the cards to expand the functionality of DELETE/UPDATE returning  
to be able to sort the output of the rows returned?  Or allow delete  
and update to be used in sub-queries?

Some examples:

create temp table t1 (id integer, location_id integer);
insert into t1 values(1, 1);
insert into t1 values(2, 1);
insert into t1 values(3, 1);
insert into t1 values(1, 3);

create temp table search_requests (id integer);
insert into search_requests values(1);
insert into search_requests values(3);

-- This works
delete from search_requests using t1 where t1.id = search_requests.id  
returning t1.id, t1.location_id;

-- This does not work.
delete from search_requests using t1 where t1.id = search_requests.id  
returning t1.id, t1.location_id order by t1.location_id desc;

-- This does not work.
select foo.id, count(*) from (delete from search_requests using t1  
where t1.id = search_requests.id returning t1.id, t1.location_id) as  
foo group by foo.id;

Thanks,

Rusty
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