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DELETE
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Delete rows of a table

Synopsis
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.. code-block:: sql

    DELETE FROM table_ident [ WHERE condition ]

Description
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DELETE deletes rows that satisfy the WHERE clause from the specified
table. If the WHERE clause is absent, the effect is to delete all rows
in the table. The result is a valid, but empty table.

Parameters
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:table_ident: The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing
    table to delete rows from.

:condition: An expression that returns a value of type boolean. Only
    rows for which this expression returns true will be deleted.

