On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:42, Moshe C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the syntax for the "where id in (select ... ) " ?

Does the sqlalchemy.sql.where() function and the in_() operator fit your needs?

Can I also ask: why do you want to ORDER BY on a DELETE?

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> On Jun 13, 5:17 pm, Michael Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's a MySQL specific syntax you might be better off not using, perhaps 
>> you could say "delete from table where id in (select id from table order by 
>> timestamp limit 10)".
>>
>> To get the exact statement, it's probably easiest just to emit the string 
>> SQL.  If you wanted the sqlalchemy.sql.delete() construct to do it you'd 
>> need to subclass Delete, add order_by() and limit() to it, and augment its 
>> compilation as described inhttp://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/core/compiler.html
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>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Moshe C. wrote:
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>> > Hi,
>> > I am using Sqlalchemy 0.6.5 .
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>> > How do I generate the following statement usin Sqlalchemy expressions
>> > (not ORM).
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>> > DELETE FROM table ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT 10;
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>> > TIA
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