Re: Yet another "drop table vs delete" question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris Browne
Subject Re: Yet another "drop table vs delete" question
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In response to Yet another "drop table vs delete" question  (marek.patrzek@gmail.com)
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xof@thebuild.com (Christophe) writes:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Yes, but if you are asking that question, you probably really want
>> to use
>> TRUNCATE.
>
> The advantage of DROP TABLE being, of course, that DROP TABLE is
> transactionally-safe, while TRUNCATE is not.

TRUNCATE mayn't have been transactionally safe back in PostgreSQL 8.0,
but it is, now.

   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-truncate.html
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