Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, 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>, Csaba Nagy <ncslists(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DELETE with LIMIT (or my first hack)
Date: 2010-12-03 00:26:35
Message-ID: 201012030026.oB30QZ927456@momjian.us
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > So should this now be a TODO item? ?Text?
>
> Allow DELETE and UPDATE to be used with LIMIT and ORDER BY.

Done:

Allow DELETE and UPDATE to be used with LIMIT and ORDER BY

* http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg01997.php
* http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-12/msg00021.php

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