pathat@comcast.net (Patrick Hatcher) writes:
> Curious: Why would a DELETE FROM tablename work while a pg_dump is
> occurring but a TRUNCATE tablename will stay in a lock state until the
> pg_dump is complete?
DELETE FROM merely has to mark all the tuples as dead, which requires
no control over the table as a whole.
TRUNCATE essentially reinitializes the table as empty, which does need
a (if brief) lock on the table.
Yeah, you can't TRUNCATE while the dump is running...
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