(I posted this first to c.l.j.p, but I realized it's more appropriate
here.)

I'm following the Hibernate 3.0.5 docs to build a query to delete rows
from a table.  My code looks something like this:

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String  hql = "delete ReqField " +
                     "where fieldName = :fieldName and value
= :value";
Query   query   =
      sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery(hql);
query.setString("fieldName", fieldName);
query.setString("value", value);

int deletedRows = query.executeUpdate();
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This fails with:

org.hibernate.QueryException: query must begin with SELECT or FROM:
delete [delete ReqField where fieldName = :fieldName and value
= :value]

What is wrong with my query?

I also tried changing "delete ReqField" to "delete from ReqField", but
that still gets the same error message (with "delete from" in the
message).