Re: Deleting bytea, autovacuum, and 8.2/8.4 differences

Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> writes:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If deleting a whole table is significant for you performance-wise,
>> you might look into using TRUNCATE instead.

> Might you still end up with a normal delete operation
> on the TOAST table when performing a TRUNCATE on the owner table?

No, you get a TRUNCATE on its toast table too.

            regards, tom lane