<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Performing Updates</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="JDBC Interface" HREF="jdbc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Issuing a Query and Processing the Result" HREF="jdbc-query.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Calling Stored Functions" HREF="jdbc-callproc.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-12-22T03:48:47"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 31. <ACRONYM CLASS="ACRONYM" >JDBC</ACRONYM > Interface</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc-callproc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="JDBC-UPDATE" >31.4. Performing Updates</A ></H1 ><P > To change data (perform an <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >INSERT</TT >, <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >UPDATE</TT >, or <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DELETE</TT >) you use the <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >executeUpdate()</CODE > method. This method is similar to the method <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >executeQuery()</CODE > used to issue a <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >SELECT</TT > statement, but it doesn't return a <CODE CLASS="CLASSNAME" >ResultSet</CODE >; instead it returns the number of rows affected by the <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >INSERT</TT >, <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >UPDATE</TT >, or <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DELETE</TT > statement. <A HREF="jdbc-update.html#JDBC-DELETE-EXAMPLE" >Example 31-3</A > illustrates the usage. </P ><DIV CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><A NAME="JDBC-DELETE-EXAMPLE" ></A ><P ><B >Example 31-3. Deleting Rows in <ACRONYM CLASS="ACRONYM" >JDBC</ACRONYM ></B ></P ><P > This example will issue a simple <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DELETE</TT > statement and print out the number of rows deleted. </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >int foovalue = 500; PreparedStatement st = db.prepareStatement("DELETE FROM mytable WHERE columnfoo = ?"); st.setInt(1, foovalue); int rowsDeleted = st.executeUpdate(); System.out.println(rowsDeleted + " rows deleted"); st.close();</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc-query.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc-callproc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Issuing a Query and Processing the Result</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jdbc.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Calling Stored Functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >