Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Anyone see a way out of this catch-22? If not, which is the least
>>bad alternative?
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> Ultimately, fix TRUNCATE to be transaction safe. This is non-trivial,
> I know :-).
>
> Regardless, the first option seems the less of the two evils.
Even though TRUNCATE was modeled after Oracle's TRUNCATE and
Oracle's TRUNCATE commits the running tx, truncates the
relation, and starts a new tx, regardless of whether or not
TRUNCATE is the first statement of the tx?
Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com