Re: autocommit vs TRUNCATE et al

Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> 
>>Anyone see a way out of this catch-22?  If not, which is the least
>>bad alternative?
> 
> 
> Ultimately, fix TRUNCATE to be transaction safe. This is non-trivial,
> I know :-).
> 
> Regardless, the first option seems the less of the two evils.

Even though TRUNCATE was modeled after Oracle's TRUNCATE and 
Oracle's TRUNCATE commits the running tx, truncates the 
relation, and starts a new tx, regardless of whether or not 
TRUNCATE is the first statement of the tx?

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com