Message-ID: <36E670EA.749A3E26@lee.k12.nc.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:17:30 -0500
From: James Olin Oden <joden@lee.k12.nc.us>
Organization: Lee County Schools
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To: vikrant@neuronetin.com
CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Retrieve rows 1 by 1
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Vikrant Rathore wrote:

> Please any one can tell me how to update,insert or change a single row
> using libpq interface. The table is not indexed and do not have a
> primary key.
> Can any one give me a way to retrieve,chage or insert data after any
> row.
> Thanks in advance
> Vikrant

I am not familiar enough with libq to give you the specifics, but I think
the key is to realize that though you do not have primary key, every
object in a table has an oid (Object ID) that postgress assigns it that is
unique.  So when you do a select be sure to include the oid field, and
then you can update that specific record easily by specifying that"

    oid = ####

That is whatever number you pulled from the database with your select.  As
for the specifics the various docs on the website I believe describe the
libq interface very well (I just have never used it so I don't remember
it) so that you can fill in the specifics for yourself.

...james