"DELETE FROM" protection - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jeremy Smith
Subject "DELETE FROM" protection
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Msg-id FKEOIJEHOIKIOEHCGNCLIENNEDAA.jer@highboard.com
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In response to Re: Help - postgresql 7.0 and cannot read block 7959 of pg_log  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: "DELETE FROM" protection  ("Matt Clark" <matt@ymogen.net>)
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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


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