Re: Truncate Triggers

[Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:22 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> 
> > CLUSTER isn't DDL. Most forms of ALTER TABLE are. And CREATE blah, etc.
> 
> Fwiw I would call CLUSTER DDL. Note that it does make a change that's visible
> in the table definition afterwards.

Is it really ?

What change does TRUNCATE make in table definition ?

> 
> There are plenty of DDL commands which modify data (CREATE INDEX, ATLER TABLE
> ALTER COLUMN TYPE). The defining characteristic of DDL is not that it doesn't
> modify the data but that it does modify the table definition.
> 
> By that definition CLUSTER is DDL and TRUNCATE is DDL if you look at the
> implementation rather than the user-visible effects.
>