With a recent commit truncate is transaction safe in 7.4.

Rod Taylor

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
index 723079ab3bcd5a67b88cdfdc7d403671acd75725..e8691bc4ea9a15a8aa0a2a2dd1318026aca677a0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/truncate.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -84,12 +84,6 @@ TRUNCATE TABLE
    DELETE but since it does not actually scan the
    table it is faster. This is most useful on large tables.
   
-
-  
-   TRUNCATE cannot be executed inside a transaction
-   block (BEGIN/COMMIT pair), because there is
-   no way to roll it back.
-