Re: TRUNCATE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: Rod Taylor
> Cc: Hackers List
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TRUNCATE
>
>
> "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.ca> writes:
> > I'm thinking it should check for an on delete rule as well as user
> > triggers.
>
> Seems reasonable to me.
>
> Should there be a "FORCE" option to override these checks and do it
> anyway?  Or is that just asking for trouble?

I've relied on being able to TRUNCATE w/o having RI kick in to lots of data
clean ups, forced sorts, etc. I'd find it annoying if I couldn't do this
anymore (or had to do equally-annoying things, like manually drop then
recreate the triggers, etc.)

I'm happy w/o the FORCE option (just let TRUNCATE do it), but if enough
people think that the FORCE keyword should be added to allow overriding of
triggers, that could be a good compromise.

But, please, don't take away the ability to TRUNCATE. Doing it when there
are triggers is one the strengths of TRUNCATE, IMNSHO.

- J.

Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton.com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
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