Re: Truncate doc fix

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Truncate doc fix
Date: 2002-12-06 03:15:09
Message-ID: 200212060315.gB63F9I24321@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch applied. Thanks.

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Rod Taylor wrote:
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> With a recent commit truncate is transaction safe in 7.4.
>
>
> Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file:
> /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -c -r1.8 truncate.sgml
> *** doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml 2002/05/18 15:44:47 1.8
> --- doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml 2002/12/06 03:00:15
> ***************
> *** 84,95 ****
> <command>DELETE</command> but since it does not actually scan the
> table it is faster. This is most useful on large tables.
> </para>
> -
> - <para>
> - <command>TRUNCATE</command> cannot be executed inside a transaction
> - block (<command>BEGIN</>/<command>COMMIT</> pair), because there is
> - no way to roll it back.
> - </para>
> </refsect1>
>
> <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-TRUNCATE-2">
> --- 84,89 ----
>
>
> --
> Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
>
> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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