Deleting rows using a limit and offset without using IN clause - mysql

Question

I want to delete rows with an offset, so I am forced to use a nested query since its not support in the raw DELETE clause.
I know this would worked (ID is the primary key):
DELETE FROM customers
WHERE ID IN (
SELECT ID
FROM customers
WHERE register_date > '2012-01-01'
ORDER BY register_date ASC
LIMIT 5, 10
);
However, this is unsupported in my version as I get the error
This version of MariaDB doesn't yet support 'LIMIT & IN/ALL/ANY/SOME subquery'.
Server version: 10.4.22-MariaDB
What can I do to achieve the same result as above that is supported in my version.
CREATE TABLE customers (
ID INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
NAME VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
REGISTER_DATE DATETIME NOT NULL
);

Answer 1

Join the table to a subquery that uses ROW_NUMBER() window function to sort the rows and filter the rows that you want to be deleted:
DELETE c
FROM customers c
INNER JOIN (
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY register_date) rn
FROM customers
WHERE register_date > '2012-01-01'
) t ON t.ID = c.ID
WHERE t.rn > 5 AND t.rn <= 15; -- get 10 rows with row numbers 6 - 15
See the demo.

Answer 2

If I did not miss something a simple delete with join will do the job...
delete customers
from (select *
from customers
WHERE register_date > '2012-01-01'
order by register_date asc
limit 5, 2) customers2
join customers on customers.id = customers2.id
Here is a demo for your version of MariaDB

Answer 3

You could try assigning a rank to your rows with the ROW_NUMBER window function, then catch those rows whose rank position is between 5 and 15.
DELETE FROM customers
WHERE ID IN (
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT ID,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
ORDER BY IF(register_date>'2012-01-01', 0, 1)
register_date ) AS rn
FROM customers) ranked_ids
WHERE rn > 4
AND rn < 16
);
This would safely avoid the use of LIMIT, though achieves the same result.
EDIT. Doing it with a join.
DELETE FROM customers c
INNER JOIN (SELECT ID,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
ORDER BY IF(register_date>'2012-01-01', 0, 1)
register_date ) AS rn
FROM customers) ranked_ids
WHERE
) ids_to_delete
ON c.ID = ids_to_delete.ID
AND ids_to_delete.rn > 4
AND ids_to_delete.rn < 16