This is actually wrong. The end result is the same but it does not in any way have the same effect.
"in any way"?
I'd say in the primary way it has the same effect: all rows are removed from the table.
And I will submit a patch.
As long as the patch is ", although your attention should be brought to the caveats listed below, since you're obviously incapable of
realising
that there's a page and a half of information
beneath this sentence"?
TRUNCATE is NOT DELETE.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that it is.
Otherwise there wouldn't be much point having it.
Geoff