-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/07 10:56, Csaba Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > This subject was touched a few times in the past, I looked into the > archives... the result is invariably key developers saying such a > feature is unsafe because the result is unpredictable, while the people > requesting is saying it is OK that way, it is expected... but no > compelling use case for it. > [snip] > > Now I don't put too much hope I can convince anybody that the limit on > the delete/update commands has valid usage scenarios, but then can > anybody help me find a good solution to chunk-wise process such a buffer > table where insert speed is the highest priority (thus no indexes, the > minimum of fields), and batch processing should still work fine with big > table size, while not impacting at all the inserts, and finish in short > time to avoid long running transactions ? Cause I can't really think of > one... other than our scheme with the delete with limit + trigger + > private temp table thing. Maybe add OIDs to the table, and delete based on the OID number? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpQ7zS9HxQb37XmcRArXQAJ9qcrWphVgtINdGlcwGubg/SEsjMgCeKyLt I8xPs0NEGqg22Cvgf4awNVQ= =l/yz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----