From: Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: it is always delete temp table will slow down the postmaster?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:37:20 +0800
Message-ID: <dderrg$f6a$1@news.hub.org> (raw)
References: <002001c59e26$11bc5bf0$a279640a@Beh>
""Chun Yit(Chronos)"" <ivanbeh@chronos.com.my> writes
>
>hi, i got one situation here, i create one pl/pgsql function that using
temp table to store temporary data.
>wherever i execute my function, i need to delete all the data inside the
temp table, but this will slow down the
>searching function if i conitnue to run the server because old tuples are
not really clear if just using delete command.
>so i use drop table command and recreate the table.
A better way to empty a table fast is "truncate table".
Regards,
Qingqing
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