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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)
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Msg-id 1291231143.2368.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On tis, 2010-11-30 at 14:20 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree, that argument is completely misconceived. If the DBA is
> paying enough attention to use LIMIT, s/he should be paying enough
> attention not to do damage in the first place. If that were the only
> argument in its favor I'd be completely against the feature.

I don't have any use for DELETE with LIMIT, but UPDATE with LIMIT could
be very useful if you are doing full-table updates and you don't have
enough space so you do it in chunks.

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