Re: Enhancement to pg_dump

Rob Kirkbride <rob.kirkbride@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard,
>
> Yes, I've changed it use TRUNCATE rather than DELETE and it's working well for
> us now.

I'm a bit surprised actually as it sounded like you were aiming to avoid the
table lock. A TRUNCATE does require an exclusive lock on the table. It still
has advantages over DROP in that there is no window when the table does not
exist and any existing references to the table from views or functions will
continue to function.


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