On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mike Mascari wrote: > Gavin Sherry wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > >>Anyone see a way out of this catch-22? If not, which is the least > >>bad alternative? > > > > > > 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?
Why should we be *only* as good as Oracle? :-) Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
