On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> BEGIN;
> TRUNCATE TABLE;
> ... load new data ...
> COMMIT;
Because then you have to take an AccessExclusiveLock on the target
table, of course.
If we had some kind of TRUNCATE CONCURRENTLY, I think that'd address a
large portion of the use case for the proposed feature.
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