Re: Feature request - Edit data and tables without a primary key - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Feature request - Edit data and tables without a primary key
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In response to Re: Feature request - Edit data and tables without a primary key  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses Re: Feature request - Edit data and tables without a primary key
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On 14 July 2012 13:57, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 12:31 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
>> Use of the CTID system column would work.
>
> I don't see how that could work. CTIDs obviously are unique, but anyone,
> updating a line will get another CTID for this line. If you try to
> update it afterwards, in the best case, it errors out because there is
> no line at this CTID. In the worst case, you update a completely
> different line.

Why can't you just use "RETURNING ctid" at the end of the statement to
get the new one and update the grid with that value?
-- 
Thom


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