Truncate doc fix

Started by Rod Taylorover 23 years ago2 messagespatches
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#1Rod Taylor
rbt@rbt.ca

With a recent commit truncate is transaction safe in 7.4.

Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
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RCS file:
/projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -c -r1.8 truncate.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml	2002/05/18 15:44:47	1.8
--- doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml	2002/12/06 03:00:15
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     <command>DELETE</command> but since it does not actually scan the
     table it is faster. This is most useful on large tables.
    </para>
- 
-   <para>
-    <command>TRUNCATE</command> cannot be executed inside a transaction
-    block (<command>BEGIN</>/<command>COMMIT</> pair), because there is
-    no way to roll it back.
-   </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-TRUNCATE-2">
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#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Rod Taylor (#1)
Re: Truncate doc fix

Patch applied. Thanks.

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Rod Taylor wrote:
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With a recent commit truncate is transaction safe in 7.4.

Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file:
/projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -c -r1.8 truncate.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml	2002/05/18 15:44:47	1.8
--- doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml	2002/12/06 03:00:15
***************
*** 84,95 ****
<command>DELETE</command> but since it does not actually scan the
table it is faster. This is most useful on large tables.
</para>
- 
-   <para>
-    <command>TRUNCATE</command> cannot be executed inside a transaction
-    block (<command>BEGIN</>/<command>COMMIT</> pair), because there is
-    no way to roll it back.
-   </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="R1-SQL-TRUNCATE-2">
--- 84,89 ----

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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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