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Require a FILTER on DELETE and UPDATE?

See original GitHub issue

There was some discussion earlier about requiring FILTER on DELETE and UPDATE statements, to help prevent mishaps. FILTER true could be used when operating on everything is actually desired.

(Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_cVJgIz_Cs)

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Created 3 years ago
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elpranscommented, Sep 3, 2020

I think we should only do this if X in DELETE X is a universal set.

That is, the following should be legal:

WITH ToDelete := (SELECT Foo FILTER ...)
DELETE ToDelete

function delete_foo(foo: Foo) -> Foo using (DELETE foo)

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elpranscommented, Mar 1, 2021

See https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/pull/1773#issuecomment-722615788 for the planned approach to handling this.

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