2009/11/24 Luca Tettamanti <kronos...@gmail.com> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jerry Champlin > <jchamp...@absolute-performance.com> wrote: > > You may want to consider using partitioning. That way you can drop the > > appropriate partition and never have the overhead of a delete. > > Hum, I don't think it's doable in my case; the partitioning is not > know a priori. First t1 is fully populated, then the data is loaded > and manipulated by my application, the result is stored in t2; only > then I want to remove (part of) the data from t1. > > thanks, > Luca > > It's a shame there isn't a LIMIT option on DELETE so this can be done in small batches.
Thom
