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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_insert.3 b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_insert.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c01dcf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_build_sql_insert.3 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: dblink_build_sql_insert +.\" 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_INSERT" "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_insert \- builds an INSERT statement using a local tuple, replacing the primary key field values with alternative supplied values +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +dblink_build_sql_insert(text relname, + int2vector primary_key_attnums, + integer num_primary_key_atts, + text[] src_pk_att_vals_array, + text[] tgt_pk_att_vals_array) returns text +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBdblink_build_sql_insert\fR +can be useful in doing selective replication of a local table to a remote database\&. It selects a row from the local table based on primary key, and then builds an SQL +\fBINSERT\fR +command that will duplicate that row, but with the primary key values replaced by the values in the last argument\&. (To make an exact copy of the row, just specify the same values for the last two arguments\&.) +.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 +\fIsrc_pk_att_vals_array\fR +.RS 4 +Values of the primary key fields to be used to look up the local tuple\&. Each field is represented in text form\&. An error is thrown if there is no local row with these primary key values\&. +.RE +.PP +\fItgt_pk_att_vals_array\fR +.RS 4 +Values of the primary key fields to be placed in the resulting +\fBINSERT\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_insert(\*(Aqfoo\*(Aq, \*(Aq1 2\*(Aq, 2, \*(Aq{"1", "a"}\*(Aq, \*(Aq{"1", "b\*(Aq\*(Aqa"}\*(Aq); + dblink_build_sql_insert +\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- + INSERT INTO foo(f1,f2,f3) VALUES(\*(Aq1\*(Aq,\*(Aqb\*(Aq\*(Aqa\*(Aq,\*(Aq1\*(Aq) +(1 row) +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} |