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Postgres documentation
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DELETE
</refname>
<refpurpose>
- Deletes rows from a table
+ Removes rows from a table
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
If the <firstterm>condition</firstterm> (WHERE clause) is absent,
the effect is to delete all rows in the table.
The result is a valid, but empty table.
+
+ <tip>
+ <para>
+ <xref linkend="sql-truncate" endterm="squ-truncate-title"> is a
+ <productname>Postgres</productname> extension which provides a
+ faster mechanism to remove all rows from a table.
+ </para>
+ </tip>
</para>
<para>