> From: Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
> 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...