Re: [HACKERS] TRUNCATE TABLE patch

Applied. Sorry for the delay. I think Tom Lane fixed the function
calls.

> I submitted a patch to the patches list several
> months ago which implemented Oracle's TRUNCATE TABLE
> statement in PostgreSQL and was wondering whether or
> not the patch was going to make it into current. I had
> the patch ready before the 6.5 release but 6.5 was
> already in beta at the time, so I waited until the
> 6.5 tree was split.
>
> Recent discussions with regard to the functioning of
> DROP TAPLE in transactions and changing heap_openr()
> to require a locking type affect the nature of the
> patch. TRUNCATE TABLE behaves like Oracle's DDL
> statements by committing the running transaction and
> starting a new one for the TRUNCATE operation
> (which generates no rollback information), or, as
> Bruce Momjian puts it "cheating".
>
> Any news?
>
> Just curious,
>
> Mike Mascari
> (mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com)
>
>
>
>
>
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