Re: TRUNCATE question

I agree it matches the description.  That said, it rather surprised me
when Triggers and things didn't go off.  Primarily due to the 'Works
like a Delete *'.  The description has changed since I first
discovered it though.
--
Rod Taylor

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otherwise.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Mascari" <mascarm@mascari.com>
To: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@barchord.com>
Cc: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>; "Hackers"
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] TRUNCATE question


> Rod Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Makes for a real pain when the nice and safe foreign keys aren't
> > really nice and safe anymore.
> > >
> > > It's supposed to work that way - same as Oracle.
>
> TRUNCATE TABLE is essentially short-hand for DROP/CREATE, but
preserves
> GRANT permissions, associations from its oid in functions, views,
etc.
> Oracle disallows TRUNCATE on a table involved in a referential
integrity
> relationship, but doesn't disallow the behavior for a normal ON
DELETE
> trigger. According to previous discussions, PostgreSQL should behave
> similarly. If it does not, its a bug. I haven't checked the status
since
> 7.1.0, so I don't know.
>
> Accordingly, as of 7.1.0, nothing stops you in PostgreSQL from
> performing a DROP/CREATE on a table involved in a referential
integrity
> relationship. Now your foreign keys are completely gone. I haven't
> checked that behavior in later versions, however. Oracle requires
DROP
> TABLE <table> CASCADE CONSTRAINTS to force a DROP of a table
involved in
> a primary/foreign key relationship.
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
>