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DELETE .. RETURNING

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The RETURNING clause allows for returning expressions based on the deleted rows.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

deleteFrom(BOOK).where(BOOK.ID.eq(1)).returningResult(BOOK.TITLE)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Firebird, Postgres, SQLite, YugabyteDB

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1
RETURNING BOOK.TITLE

DB2, H2

SELECT TITLE
FROM OLD TABLE (
  DELETE FROM BOOK
  WHERE BOOK.ID = 1
) BOOK

MariaDB

DELETE FROM BOOK
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1
RETURNING TITLE

Oracle

DECLARE
  o0 DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE;
  c0 sys_refcursor;
BEGIN
  DELETE FROM BOOK
  WHERE BOOK.ID = 1
  RETURNING BOOK.TITLE
  BULK COLLECT INTO o0;
  ? := SQL%ROWCOUNT;
  OPEN c0 FOR SELECT * FROM TABLE(o0);
  ? := c0;
END;

SQLServer

DELETE FROM BOOK
OUTPUT deleted.TITLE
WHERE BOOK.ID = 1

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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