BEGIN; DELETE FROM mytable; !!! OOOPS !!!! ROLLBACK;
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Smith > Sent: 20 February 2004 06:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ADMIN] "DELETE FROM" protection > > > > This may be an all-time idiotic question, but when I used phpmysql, when I > would type in a "DELETE FROM" query in the SQL window, it would make me > confirm it before I allowed it to go through. I don't think in all of the > presumably thousands of times that I used it that I ever canceled out of the > statement, but I always liked that it is there. > > So now with pgsql, when I am typing "DELETE FROM...." until I get to the > "WHERE" part of the statement, I get a little nervous because I know hitting > Enter by mistake will wipe out that table. Of course, I have backups, but > it is a live site with alot of traffic and I would hate to have to shut > things down while I restored the DB. > > Anyway, this may all seem silly, but is there a setting in pgsql to do this? > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
