> From: Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa@xxxxxxxxx> > Hello Glyn, > > Our legacy apps have some permanent tables that they use > for tempory data > > and constantly clear out, I've kicked the > developers and I intend to > > eradicate them eventually (the tables, not the > developers). > > > > and what is the problem with this usage? That is a > perfectly valid thing to > do; PostgreSQL can handle that for centuries; no need to > kick the developers > :) > In some cases yes, but most of the time it's because they can't be bothered to sort a list of 100 items in their application...