Re: "truncate all"?

Added to TODO:
* Add TRUNCATE ... CASCADE


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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> > I wouldn't care for that either.  The prior suggestion of "TRUNCATE tab
> > CASCADE" (to truncate any tables with FK dependencies on the original
> > target, instead of failing) seems more reasonable.
> 
> I agree with Tom ... even the idea of a "TRUNCATE ALL" makes me nervous.  If 
> we had such a feature, I'd advocate that it be superuser only.
> 
> As for "TRUNCATE CASCADE" or similar improvements, I agree that they could be 
> convenient ... but are easily worked around currently.   So I wouldn't object 
> to putting TRUNCATE CASCADE on the todo list, but would argue that it be left 
> to the people who asked for it to implement it.
> 
> As far as 
> 
> -- 
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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