Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar jun 14 13:04:30 -0400 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera writes:
> > Done that way (9.0 and beyond).
>
> Re-reading the actual commit, I notice that there's now a grammatical
> problem: the following sentence says
>
>It also entirely avoids the VACUUM
>
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:44 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to
> highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.
>
> Best,
>
> David
>
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Done that way (9.0 and beyond).
Re-reading the actual commit, I notice that there's now a grammatical
problem: the following sentence says
It also entirely avoids the VACUUM
overhead caused by a bulk DELETE.
which was okay when "it" referred to "ALTER TABL
Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of mar jun 14 12:33:27 -0400 2011:
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >> - ALTER TABLE is far faster than a bulk operation.
> >> + ALTER TABLE (to split out a sub-table from the
> >> partitioned
> >> + table) and DROP TABLE (
On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> - ALTER TABLE is far faster than a bulk operation.
>> + ALTER TABLE (to split out a sub-table from the partitioned
>> + table) and DROP TABLE (to remove a partition altogether)
>> are
>> + both far faster than a bulk operation.
>
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun jun 13 17:44:05 -0400 2011:
>> I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to
>> highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.
> I think the point of the existing
Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of lun jun 13 17:44:05 -0400 2011:
> I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to
> highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.
I think the point of the existing wording is to point out
ALTER
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to
> highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.
I guess they might mean ALTER TABLE .. NO INHERIT. But I think I
agree that DROP
I was reading the partitioning docs when I spotted this. I think it means to
highlight the advantages of DROP TABLE over DELETE rather than ALTER TABLE.
Best,
David
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 4c9fc5d..0cdb800 100644
*** a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
--- b/doc/src
