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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-13 13:44:03 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-13 13:44:03 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_get_pkey.3 b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_get_pkey.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43fea93 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man3/dblink_get_pkey.3 @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: dblink_get_pkey +.\" Author: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 2024 +.\" Manual: PostgreSQL 16.2 Documentation +.\" Source: PostgreSQL 16.2 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "DBLINK_GET_PKEY" "3" "2024" "PostgreSQL 16.2" "PostgreSQL 16.2 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_get_pkey \- returns the positions and field names of a relation\*(Aqs primary key fields +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +dblink_get_pkey(text relname) returns setof dblink_pkey_results +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBdblink_get_pkey\fR +provides information about the primary key of a relation in the local database\&. This is sometimes useful in generating queries to be sent to remote databases\&. +.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 +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +.PP +Returns one row for each primary key field, or no rows if the relation has no primary key\&. The result row type is defined as +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE TYPE dblink_pkey_results AS (position int, colname text); +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +The +position +column simply runs from 1 to +\fIN\fR; it is the number of the field within the primary key, not the number within the table\*(Aqs columns\&. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE TABLE foobar ( + f1 int, + f2 int, + f3 int, + PRIMARY KEY (f1, f2, f3) +); +CREATE TABLE + +SELECT * FROM dblink_get_pkey(\*(Aqfoobar\*(Aq); + position | colname +\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-+\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- + 1 | f1 + 2 | f2 + 3 | f3 +(3 rows) +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} |