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title: "Deletions"
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pg_version: "20devel"
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## 2.9. Deletions

Rows can be removed from a table using the `DELETE` command. Suppose you are no longer interested in the weather of Hayward. Then you can do the following to delete those rows from the table: 
DELETE FROM weather WHERE city = 'Hayward';
 All weather records belonging to Hayward are removed. 
SELECT * FROM weather;
 
     city      | temp_lo | temp_hi | prcp |    date
---------------+---------+---------+------+------------
 San Francisco |      46 |      50 | 0.25 | 1994-11-27
 San Francisco |      41 |      55 |    0 | 1994-11-29
(2 rows)
 

One should be wary of statements of the form ```
DELETE FROM tablename;
```

 Without a qualification, `DELETE` will remove *all* rows from the given table, leaving it empty. The system will not request confirmation before doing this!