On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com 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
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
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com 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
On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
- commandALTER TABLE/ is far faster than a bulk operation.
+ commandALTER TABLE/ (to split out a sub-table from the partitioned
+ table) and commandDROP TABLE/ (to remove a partition altogether)
are
+ both far faster than a
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:
- commandALTER TABLE/ is far faster than a bulk operation.
+ commandALTER TABLE/ (to split out a sub-table from the
partitioned
+ table) and
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com 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 commandVACUUM/command
overhead caused by a bulk commandDELETE/.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:44 PM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com 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
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar jun 14 13:04:30 -0400 2011:
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com 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
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
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