On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Csaba Nagy <ncsli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The workaround recommended some time ago by Tom is: > > DELETE FROM residents_of_athens WHERE ctid = any(array(SELECT ctid FROM > residents_of_athens ORDER BY ostracism_votes DESC LIMIT 1)); > > It is about as efficient as the requested feature would be, just uglier > to write down. I use it all the time when batch-deleting something large > (to avoid long running transactions and to not crash slony). It also > helps to vacuum frequently if you do that on large amount of data...
That's a very elegant hack, but not exactly obvious to a novice user or, say, me. So I think it'd be nicer to have the obvious syntax work. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
