Re: TRUNCATE on foreign table

From: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kazutaka Onishi <onishi(at)heterodb(dot)com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)heterodb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: TRUNCATE on foreign table
Date: 2021-02-09 12:30:27
Message-ID: CAExHW5sb6jFFB4MBw+fHkSs0pKzD6=Ux=08kfiPN1_gEh4QSKg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:49 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:31 PM Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Why would one want to truncate a foreign table instead of truncating
> > actual table wherever it is?
>
> I think when the deletion on foreign tables (which actually deletes
> rows from the remote table?) is allowed, it does make sense to have a
> way to truncate the remote table via foreign table. Also, it can avoid
> going to each and every remote server and doing the truncation
> instead.

DELETE is very different from TRUNCATE. Application may want to DELETE
based on a join with a local table and hence it can not be executed on
a foreign server. That's not true with TRUNCATE.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat

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