TRUNCATE violates Referential Integrity

This is a problem in release 7.0.2.

I had never heard of the truncate command! It seems that it ought to be
disallowed on a table that is a target for RI checks, since checking that
deletions are OK would frustrate the whole purpose of truncate as opposed
to delete.

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Date: 25 Jun 2000 13:49:14 +0000
From: Grzegorz Stelmaszek <greg(at)tenet(dot)pl>
To: submit(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org
Subject: Bug#66232: postgresql: TRUNCATE doesn't check REFERENCE clause

Package: postgresql
Version: 7.0-release-1
Severity: normal

TRUNCATE'ing the table allows rows to be deleted in spite of the REFERENCES
clause pointing to that table. These may bring the db to an inconsistent
state.

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