Logically, you should be able to truncate a table twice.

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Simon Riggs wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:54 +0000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Log Message:
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> > Allow TRUNCATE foo, foo to succeed, per report from Nikhils.
> 
> What's the use case for this?
> 
> It's not compatibility, is it? Why would you ever do that? If you did,
> why would you expect it to work? Seems more likely to be a user error
> than a real request.
> 
> Should it throw one trigger call, or two?
> 
> BTW, create index foo_idx on foo (col1, col1) fails also with a strange
> error message. Should we silently merge columns and ignore that also?
> 
> ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint
> "pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index"
> 
> Seems easier to throw errors for weird DDL like this.
> 
> e.g. create index concurrently on foo (col1); creates an index called
> "concurrently" on foo, while holding locks...
> 
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