Re: Generating TRUNCATE orders

From: Florian Pflug <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurent ROCHE <laurent_roche(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Generating TRUNCATE orders
Date: 2007-10-04 11:54:23
Message-ID: 4704D46F.1070606@gmail.com
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Erik Jones wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> SELECT 'TRUNCATE ' || schemaname || '.' || tablename ';'
> FROM pg_tables
> WHERE schemname='my_schema'
> ORDER BY tablename;

To be safe, you'd probably want to write
SELECT 'TRUNCATE' || quote_ident(schemaname) || '.' || quote_ident(tablename) ||
';' ...

Otherwise, table or schema names containing funny characters, upper case, or
spaces will cause trouble..

greetings, Florian Pflug

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