Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE
Date: 2006-05-23 08:19:25
Message-ID: 1148372365.3114.5.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:55, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> BTW, there's a bug/issue with CLUSTER that makes it not entirely
> transaction safe.

For God's sake, don't fix that one ! I rely on it... now seriously,
until there's a way to tell the DB that an exclusive lock is enough to
vacuum all dead rows, even if they would be visible by other
transactions, CLUSTER is the only thing I can use to circumvent the long
running transaction syndrome.

Cheers,
Csaba.

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