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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Martin Pitt
  • Date: 2009-07-11 16:59:35 UTC
  • mfrom: (5.1.1 karmic)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090711165935-jfwin6gfrxf0gfsi
Tags: 8.4.0-2
http://bugs.debian.org/536139
* debian/libpq-dev.install: Ship catalog/genbki.h. (Closes: #536139)
* debian/rules: Drop --enable-cassert for final release.

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dml.sgml,v 1.18 2009/04/27 16:27:35 momjian Exp $ -->
 
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<chapter id="dml">
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 <title>Data Manipulation</title>
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  <para>
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   To perform an update, you need three pieces of information:
 
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   To update existing rows, use the <xref linkend="sql-update"
 
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   endterm="sql-update-title"> command.  This requires
 
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   three pieces of information:
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   <orderedlist spacing="compact">
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    <listitem>
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     <para>The name of the table and column to update</para>
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<programlisting>
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DELETE FROM products;
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</programlisting>
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   then all rows in the table will be deleted!  (<xref
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   linkend="sql-truncate" endterm="sql-truncate-title"> can also be used
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   to delete all rows.)
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   Caveat programmer.
 
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   then all rows in the table will be deleted!  Caveat programmer.
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  </para>
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</chapter>