Re: TRUNCATE on foreign table

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kazutaka Onishi <onishi(at)heterodb(dot)com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)heterodb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: TRUNCATE on foreign table
Date: 2021-02-09 12:19:01
Message-ID: CALj2ACUryBiJvdrEnghnygPaaniyobjZxzK96h-xwah9LWpX3w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:31 PM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Why would one want to truncate a foreign table instead of truncating
> actual table wherever it is?

I think when the deletion on foreign tables (which actually deletes
rows from the remote table?) is allowed, it does make sense to have a
way to truncate the remote table via foreign table. Also, it can avoid
going to each and every remote server and doing the truncation
instead.

With Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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