From 1c853336ff648be0910b099b8f61f098c1388c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guilherme Martins Crocetti
 <24530683+gmcrocetti@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:43:44 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs: include option 'delete_rows' in docstrings. fixed the
 doctest suite after adding a new example using 'delete_rows' to it.

---
 pandas/core/generic.py | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 81fefe8b8f999..80c43b76e53db 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -2788,7 +2788,7 @@ def to_sql(
         con,
         *,
         schema: str | None = None,
-        if_exists: Literal["fail", "replace", "append"] = "fail",
+        if_exists: Literal["fail", "replace", "append", "delete_rows"] = "fail",
         index: bool = True,
         index_label: IndexLabel | None = None,
         chunksize: int | None = None,
@@ -2825,12 +2825,13 @@ def to_sql(
         schema : str, optional
             Specify the schema (if database flavor supports this). If None, use
             default schema.
-        if_exists : {'fail', 'replace', 'append'}, default 'fail'
+        if_exists : {'fail', 'replace', 'append', 'delete_rows'}, default 'fail'
             How to behave if the table already exists.
 
             * fail: Raise a ValueError.
             * replace: Drop the table before inserting new values.
             * append: Insert new values to the existing table.
+            * delete_rows: If a table exists, delete all records and insert data.
 
         index : bool, default True
             Write DataFrame index as a column. Uses `index_label` as the column
@@ -2947,6 +2948,16 @@ def to_sql(
         ...     conn.execute(text("SELECT * FROM users")).fetchall()
         [(0, 'User 6'), (1, 'User 7')]
 
+        Delete all rows before inserting new records with ``df3``
+
+        >>> df3 = pd.DataFrame({"name": ['User 8', 'User 9']})
+        >>> df3.to_sql(name='users', con=engine, if_exists='delete_rows',
+        ...            index_label='id')
+        2
+        >>> with engine.connect() as conn:
+        ...     conn.execute(text("SELECT * FROM users")).fetchall()
+        [(0, 'User 8'), (1, 'User 9')]
+
         Use ``method`` to define a callable insertion method to do nothing
         if there's a primary key conflict on a table in a PostgreSQL database.