Re: about truncate

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Given that the main (and only sane, IMHO) use for table inheritance is
> > in table partitioning, can we see about deprecating ONLY (in the table
> > inheritance sense) for the next couple of development cycles and then
> > removing it?
> 
> No.
> 
> 1.  It's required by SQL standard.

Well blow me down!  I had no idea the SQL standard had this wart in it.

> 2.  Just because you don't have a use for it doesn't mean no one does.

Clearly the SQL standards committee does, and their usage controls ;)

Cheers,
David.
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