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From: Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: TRUNCATE ONLY with foreign keys and triggers disabled
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:57:04 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hello list,

While doing TRUNCATE ONLY I get:

   ERROR: cannot truncate a table referenced in a foreign key constraint

But in my case the table to be truncated is already empty, and the 
TRIGGERS are disabled in all tables.

I wonder, is there a deeper reason for this error, or is it just an 
implementation shortcoming? In other words, how easy would it be to write 
a patch that allows TRUNCATE even with foreign keys when triggers are 
disabled or the table is empty?

Thanks in advance,
Dimitris

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