[Tutor] sqlite3 does it support limit in a delete clause?
Jim Byrnes
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Fri Feb 22 15:57:48 CET 2013
On 02/21/2013 11:10 PM, eryksun wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> cur.execute("delete from pwds where Account='xMe' limit 1")
>
> If you need a alternate way to limit the delete, try the following,
> for which the limit is on a select query:
>
> cur.execute('''
> delete from pwds where rowid in (
> select rowid from pwds where Account='xMe' limit 1)
> ''')
Thanks for all the info. I ran your tests and my version of sqlite3 is
indeed not compiled to use LIMIT. After I sent the email I was
wondering about using rowid. Thanks for confirming it with an example.
Regards, Jim
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