Is this a bug?
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > This this a TODO? Keep in mind if we follow the syntax of VACUUM and
> > > (7.4) CLUSTER, that the all-database truncate would just be "TRUNACATE".
> > > That seems very risky to me. I wonder if the risk is worth adding this
> > > feature.
> >
> > I wouldn't care for that either. The prior suggestion of "TRUNCATE tab
> > CASCADE" (to truncate any tables with FK dependencies on the original
> > target, instead of failing) seems more reasonable.
> >
>
> Actually there seems to be an ancillary issue here:
>
> 21809=# truncate exception;
> ERROR: TRUNCATE cannot be used as table exception_notice_map references
> this one via foreign key constraint $1
> 21809=# TRUNCATE exception_notice_map ;
> TRUNCATE TABLE
> 21809=# truncate exception;
> ERROR: TRUNCATE cannot be used as table exception_notice_map references
> this one via foreign key constraint $1
> 21809=# select count(*) from exception_notice_map;
> count
> -------
> 0
> (1 row)
>
> 21809=#
>
> Robert Treat
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