On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:20 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Martin Ebourne wrote: > > One of the rules to save your bacon, just like you should always > > 'select ... from ... where ...' before you 'delete from ... where ...', > > 'find ... -print' before you 'find ... -exec rm \;' or xargs equivalent. > > No, you turn off autocommit, you maniac.
Actually I usually do both. After all, it's usually still easier to be sure you're deleting the right stuff than it is to be sure you haven't deleted the wrong stuff. Cheers, Martin.
