SiSU - SiSU information Structuring Universe - Search [0.58],
Ralph Amissah

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SiSU Search

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3. Postgresql

3. Postgresql

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3.1 Name

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SiSU - Structured information, Serialized Units - a document publishing system, postgresql dependency package

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3.2 Description

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Information related to using postgresql with sisu (and related to the sisu_postgresql dependency package, which is a dummy package to install dependencies needed for SiSU to populate a postgresql database, this being part of SiSU - man sisu).

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3.3 Synopsis

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sisu -D [instruction] [filename/wildcard if required]

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sisu -D --pg --[instruction] [filename/wildcard if required]

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3.4 Commands

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Mappings to two databases are provided by default, postgresql and sqlite, the same commands are used within sisu to construct and populate databases however -d (lowercase) denotes sqlite and -D (uppercase) denotes postgresql, alternatively --sqlite or --pgsql may be used

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-D or --pgsql may be used interchangeably.

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3.4.1 create and destroy database

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--pgsql --createall
initial step, creates required relations (tables, indexes) in existing (postgresql) database (a database should be created manually and given the same name as working directory, as requested) (rb.dbi)

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sisu -D --createdb
creates database where no database existed before

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sisu -D --create
creates database tables where no database tables existed before

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sisu -D --Dropall
destroys database (including all its content)! kills data and drops tables, indexes and database associated with a given directory (and directories of the same name).

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sisu -D --recreate
destroys existing database and builds a new empty database structure

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3.4.2 import and remove documents

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sisu -D --import -v [filename/wildcard]
populates database with the contents of the file. Imports documents(s) specified to a postgresql database (at an object level).

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sisu -D --update -v [filename/wildcard]
updates file contents in database

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sisu -D --remove -v [filename/wildcard]
removes specified document from postgresql database.

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Output generated by SiSU 0.59.0 2007-09-23 (2007w38/0)
SiSU Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.
SiSU is software for document structuring, publishing and search,
www.jus.uio.no/sisu and www.sisudoc.org
w3 since October 3 1993 ralph@amissah.com

SiSU using:
Standard SiSU markup syntax,
Standard SiSU meta-markup syntax, and the
Standard SiSU object citation numbering and system, (object/text positioning system)
Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.

SiSU is released under GPLv3 or later, <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

SiSU, developed using Ruby on Debian/Gnu/Linux software infrastructure, with the usual GPL (or OSS) suspects.
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