Delete using left outer join in Postgres

Question

I am switching a database from MySQL to Postgres SQL. A select query that worked in MySQL works in Postgres but a similar delete query does not.

I have two tables of da

Answer 1

As others have noted, you can't LEFT JOIN directly in a DELETE statement. You can, however, self join on a primary key to the target table with a USING statement, then left join against that self-joined table.

DELETE FROM tv_episodes
USING tv_episodes AS ed
LEFT OUTER JOIN data AS nd ON
   ed.file_name = nd.file_name AND 
   ed.path = nd.path
WHERE
   tv_episodes.id = ed.id AND
   ed.cd_name = 'MediaLibraryDrive' AND nd.cd_name IS NULL;

Note the self join on tv_episodes.id in the WHERE clause. This avoids the sub-query route provided above.