| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Daniel Loureiro <daniel(at)termasa(dot)com(dot)br>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Csaba Nagy <ncslists(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack) |
| Date: | 2010-12-01 19:19:03 |
| Message-ID: | 1291231143.2368.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On tis, 2010-11-30 at 14:20 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree, that argument is completely misconceived. If the DBA is
> paying enough attention to use LIMIT, s/he should be paying enough
> attention not to do damage in the first place. If that were the only
> argument in its favor I'd be completely against the feature.
I don't have any use for DELETE with LIMIT, but UPDATE with LIMIT could
be very useful if you are doing full-table updates and you don't have
enough space so you do it in chunks.
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