TRUNCATE quickly removes all rows from a set of
tables. It has the same effect as an unqualified
DELETE on each table, but since it does not actually
- scan the tables it is faster; furthermore it reclaims disk space
- immediately, rather than requiring a subsequent vacuum operation.
- This is most useful on large tables.
+ scan the tables it is faster. Furthermore, it reclaims disk space
+ immediately, rather than requiring a subsequent VACUUM
+ operation. This is most useful on large tables.
in the same command. Checking validity in such cases would require table
scans, and the whole point is not to do one. The CASCADE>
option can be used to automatically include all dependent tables —
- but be very careful when using this option, else you might lose data you
+ but be very careful when using this option, or else you might lose data you
did not intend to!
- TRUNCATE> will not run any user-defined ON
- DELETE triggers that might exist for the tables.
+ TRUNCATE> will not run any ON DELETE
+ triggers that might exist for the tables.
- TRUNCATE> is not MVCC-safe (see
- for general information about MVCC). After truncation, the table
- will appear empty to all concurrent transactions, even if they are
- using a snapshot taken before the truncation occurred. This will
- only be an issue for a transaction that did not touch the table
- before the truncation started — any transaction that has done
- so would hold at least ACCESS SHARE lock,
- which would block
- TRUNCATE> until that transaction completes. So
- truncation will not cause any apparent inconsistency in the table
- contents for successive queries on the same table, but it could
- cause visible inconsistency between the contents of the
- truncated table and other tables.
-
-
- TRUNCATE> is transaction-safe, however: the truncation
- will roll back if the surrounding transaction does not commit.
-
+
+ TRUNCATE> is not MVCC-safe (see
+ for general information about MVCC). After truncation, the table
+ will appear empty to all concurrent transactions, even if they
+ are using a snapshot taken before the truncation occurred. This
+ will only be an issue for a transaction that did not access the
+ truncated table before the truncation happened — any
+ transaction that has done so would hold at least an
+ ACCESS SHARE lock, which would block
+ TRUNCATE> until that transaction completes. So
+ truncation will not cause any apparent inconsistency in the table
+ contents for successive queries on the same table, but it could
+ cause visible inconsistency between the contents of the truncated
+ table and other tables in the database.
+
+
+ TRUNCATE> is transaction-safe, however: the truncation
+ will be safely rolled back if the surrounding transaction does not
+ commit.
+
+
Truncate the tables bigtable and fattable:
-TRUNCATE TABLE bigtable, fattable;
+TRUNCATE bigtable, fattable;
Truncate the table othertable, and cascade to any tables
- that are referencing othertable via foreign-key
+ that reference othertable via foreign-key
constraints: