RE: Enhancement Request

No. I was submitting a request that we could add LIMIT to DELETE FROM. There are work arounds for this. But it would be nice to skip the work arounds.

From: M Sarwar <sarwarmd02(at)outlook(dot)com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:47 PM
To: Hajek, Nick <Nick(dot)Hajek(at)vishay(dot)com>; Campbell, Lance <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu>; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Enhancement Request

Nick,
@Hajek, Nick<mailto:Nick(dot)Hajek(at)vishay(dot)com>
Are you confirming that DELETE FROM - LIMIT is working?
Thanks,
Sarwar

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From: Hajek, Nick <Nick(dot)Hajek(at)vishay(dot)com<mailto:Nick(dot)Hajek(at)vishay(dot)com>>
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Subject: RE: Enhancement Request

// It would be nice if the DELETE FROM supported LIMIT. I can already feel the dislike for this post coming back in my direction.

// I have had numerous times over the years where I need to delete a lot of rows from a table but because each row is linked to so many other tables it will cause // a problem in performance if I don't limit the size of the deletion.

I use a query like this to accomplish a limited deletion -

Delete from table1 where table1.id in (select table1.id from table1 limit yourlimitnumber)