On 2018/09/13 23:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> On 2018/09/13 1:14, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> That seems excessively restrictive. Anything that has storage (e.g.
>>> matviews) ought to be truncatable, no?
>
>> Not by heap_truncate it seems. The header comment of heap_truncate says
>> that it concerns itself only with ON COMMIT truncation of temporary tables:
>
> Ah. Well, in that case I'm OK with just a simple test for
> RELKIND_RELATION, but I definitely feel that it should be inside
> heap_truncate. Callers don't need to know about the limited scope
> of what that does.
I guess you meant inside heap_truncate_one_rel. I updated the patch that
way, but I wonder if we shouldn't also allow other relkinds that have
storage which RelationTruncate et al can technically deal with.
Thanks,
Amit