Re: Feature request: Truncate table

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 13:37, Billy O'Connor wrote:
> Deletion of data from a PostgreSQL table is very slow.
>
> It would be nice to have a very fast delete like "truncate table."
>
> Now, truncate is a very dangerous command because it is not logged (but
> the same is true for other operations like bulk copy and select into).
> So one needs to be careful how this command is granted. The same damage
> (accidental deletion of all data) can be done by drop table just as
> easily.
>
> I frequently have to do this right now in PostgreSQL, but I simply
> emulate it by drop table/create table.
>
> What is a TRUNCATE TABLE but a drop create anyway? Is there some
> technical difference?
>
It doesn't kill indexes/triggers/constraints/Foreign Key Stuff, etc.

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