Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE
Date: 2006-05-23 22:12:00
Message-ID: 20060523221159.GF64371@pervasive.com
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:19:25AM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:55, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > BTW, there's a bug/issue with CLUSTER that makes it not entirely
> > transaction safe.
>
> For God's sake, don't fix that one ! I rely on it... now seriously,
> until there's a way to tell the DB that an exclusive lock is enough to
> vacuum all dead rows, even if they would be visible by other
> transactions, CLUSTER is the only thing I can use to circumvent the long
> running transaction syndrome.

I believe it's already fixed in HEAD/8.2.
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