On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 13:37, Billy O'Connor wrote: > Deletion of data from a PostgreSQL table is very slow. > > It would be nice to have a very fast delete like "truncate table." > > Now, truncate is a very dangerous command because it is not logged (but > the same is true for other operations like bulk copy and select into). > So one needs to be careful how this command is granted. The same damage > (accidental deletion of all data) can be done by drop table just as > easily. > > I frequently have to do this right now in PostgreSQL, but I simply > emulate it by drop table/create table. > > What is a TRUNCATE TABLE but a drop create anyway? Is there some > technical difference? > It doesn't kill indexes/triggers/constraints/Foreign Key Stuff, etc.
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