On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Neanderthelle Jones wrote: > I'd like to delete all the image files from a table by issuing an > interactive psql command. Given > > CREATE TABLE image ( > name text, > rast oid > ); > > with most tuples having images in rast, wanna do something like > > => select lo_unlink('select rast from image'); > > Can such a thing be done, and how? I guess I've forgotten the syntax. > > Or will an update that sets the oids to null or 0 work? > > (pgsql 9.1.2) One attempt. Is the error mine or PostgreSQL's? $ for i in $(psql -q -t -U elle -d my_db \ -c "SELECT raster FROM images where raster > 0"); do echo $i psql -q -U elle -d my_db -c "SELECT lo_unlink($i)" done 21234 ERROR: large object 21234 does not exist 21235 ERROR: large object 21235 does not exist 21236 ERROR: large object 21236 does not exist 21237 ERROR: large object 21237 does not exist 21238 ERROR: large object 21238 does not exist 21239 ERROR: large object 21239 does not exist 21240 ERROR: large object 21240 does not exist 21241 ERROR: large object 21241 does not exist 21242 ERROR: large object 21242 does not exist 21243 ERROR: large object 21243 does not exist etc. etc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general