Re: Disruptive corruption of data during an update

* Binand Sethumadhavan <binand(at)gmx(dot)net> [290312, 17:03]:
>
> Because of the single quote being at the wrong place, your query was
> processed as though not having a where clause at all, and the ENTIRE
> table got updated with the text:
> [...]
> in the autore field (and similarly in the argomento field).
>
Oh yes, I did realize that, but too late ;(

> What I typically do is to attach "where 1 = 0" to inhibit a query from
> making any changes, if I find an error in a multiline query and do not
> want to Control-C out of psql.
>
> Binand

Thanks for your suggestion, regards,
ennio

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