<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >delete</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.73 "><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Database Wrapper Class: DB" HREF="pygresql-pg-db.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="clear" HREF="pygresql-db-clear.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Query Result Object: pgqueryobject" HREF="pygresql-pg-pgqueryobject.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-02-03T20:17:34"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pygresql-db-clear.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="pygresql-pg-pgqueryobject.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="PYGRESQL-DB-DELETE" >delete</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN30413" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >delete -- delete a row from a table</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN30416" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >delete(<TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >table</I ></TT >, [<SPAN CLASS="OPTIONAL" ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >a</I ></TT ></SPAN >])</PRE ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-PYGRESQL-DB-DELETE-1" ></A ><H3 >Parameters</H3 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >table</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Name of table. </P ></DD ><DT >[<SPAN CLASS="OPTIONAL" ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >a</I ></TT ></SPAN >]</DT ><DD ><P > A dictionary of values. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-PYGRESQL-DB-DELETE-2" ></A ><H3 >Return Type</H3 ><P > none </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-PYGRESQL-DB-DELETE-1" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > This method deletes the row from a table. It deletes based on the OID as munged as described above. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-db-clear.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-pg-pgqueryobject.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >clear</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="pygresql-pg-db.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Query Result Object: <TT CLASS="CLASSNAME" >pgqueryobject</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >