On 11/30/2010 09:57 AM, Csaba Nagy wrote:
So it is really an ideological thing and not lack of demand or implementation attempts... I for myself can't write working C code anyway, so I got my peace with the workaround - I wish you good luck arguing Tom :-)
We need a convincing use case for it. So far the only one that's seemed at all convincing to me is the one about deleting in batches. But that might be enough.
As for it being illogical, I don't think it's any more so than DELETE FROM foo WHERE random() < 0.1; and you can do that today. cheers andrew