原来一直没注意，merge是可以支持delete，只不过必须的是on条件满足，也就是要求系统支持逻辑删除，而非物理删除。

Using the DELETE Clause with MERGE Statements

You may want to cleanse tables while populating or updating them. To do this, you may want to consider using the DELETE clause in a MERGE statement, as in the following example:

MERGE USING Product_Changes SINTO Products D ON (D.PROD_ID = S.PROD_ID)WHEN MATCHED THENUPDATE SET D.PROD_LIST_PRICE =S.PROD_NEW_PRICE, D.PROD_STATUS = S.PROD_NEWSTATUSDELETE WHERE (D.PROD_STATUS = "OBSOLETE")WHEN NOT MATCHED THENINSERT (PROD_ID, PROD_LIST_PRICE, PROD_STATUS)VALUES (S.PROD_ID, S.PROD_NEW_PRICE, S.PROD_NEW_STATUS);

Thus when a row is updated in products, Oracle checks the delete condition D.PROD_STATUS = "OBSOLETE", and deletes the row if the condition yields true.

The DELETE operation is not as same as that of a complete DELETE statement. Only the rows from the destination of the MERGE can be deleted. The only rows that are affected by the DELETE are the ones that are updated by this MERGE statement. Thus, although a given row of the destination table meets the delete condition, if it does not join under the ON clause condition, it is not deleted.