> I couldn't find any discussion on this, but the request is quite > straightforward. Implement a LIMIT on DELETE statements like SELECT > statements. > > So you could write: > > DELETE FROM massive_table WHERE id < 40000000 LIMIT 10000; > > This would allow deletions in smaller batches rather than waiting > potentially hours for the server to mark all those rows as deleted and > commit it as one massive transaction.
Is this a PgAdmin-specific question? If it is, apologies I am missing the context.
If not, this is totally the wrong list, but why not use a subquery to control what is deleted?
Ian Barwick
Erm... my mistake, I thought this was on the generic hackers list. Moving it over in this reply.
