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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_delete.3 b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_delete.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c813f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_delete.3 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: dblink_build_sql_delete +.\" Author: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 2023 +.\" Manual: PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation +.\" Source: PostgreSQL 15.5 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "DBLINK_BUILD_SQL_DELETE" "3" "2023" "PostgreSQL 15.5" "PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +dblink_build_sql_delete \- builds a DELETE statement using supplied values for primary key field values +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +dblink_build_sql_delete(text relname, + int2vector primary_key_attnums, + integer num_primary_key_atts, + text[] tgt_pk_att_vals_array) returns text +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBdblink_build_sql_delete\fR +can be useful in doing selective replication of a local table to a remote database\&. It builds an SQL +\fBDELETE\fR +command that will delete the row with the given primary key values\&. +.SH "ARGUMENTS" +.PP +\fIrelname\fR +.RS 4 +Name of a local relation, for example +foo +or +myschema\&.mytab\&. Include double quotes if the name is mixed\-case or contains special characters, for example +"FooBar"; without quotes, the string will be folded to lower case\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIprimary_key_attnums\fR +.RS 4 +Attribute numbers (1\-based) of the primary key fields, for example +1 2\&. +.RE +.PP +\fInum_primary_key_atts\fR +.RS 4 +The number of primary key fields\&. +.RE +.PP +\fItgt_pk_att_vals_array\fR +.RS 4 +Values of the primary key fields to be used in the resulting +\fBDELETE\fR +command\&. Each field is represented in text form\&. +.RE +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +.PP +Returns the requested SQL statement as text\&. +.SH "NOTES" +.PP +As of +PostgreSQL +9\&.0, the attribute numbers in +\fIprimary_key_attnums\fR +are interpreted as logical column numbers, corresponding to the column\*(Aqs position in +SELECT * FROM relname\&. Previous versions interpreted the numbers as physical column positions\&. There is a difference if any column(s) to the left of the indicated column have been dropped during the lifetime of the table\&. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +SELECT dblink_build_sql_delete(\*(Aq"MyFoo"\*(Aq, \*(Aq1 2\*(Aq, 2, \*(Aq{"1", "b"}\*(Aq); + dblink_build_sql_delete +\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- + DELETE FROM "MyFoo" WHERE f1=\*(Aq1\*(Aq AND f2=\*(Aqb\*(Aq +(1 row) +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} |