Re: Feature request: Truncate table - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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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