til/postgres/truncate-all-rows.md

Truncate All Rows

Given a postgres database, if you want to delete all rows in a table, you can use the DELETE query without any conditions.

> delete from pokemons;
DELETE 151

Though DELETE can do the job, if you really are deleting all rows to clear out a table, you are better off using TRUNCATE. A TRUNCATE query will be faster than a DELETE query because it will just delete the rows without scanning them as it goes.

> truncate pokemons;
TRUNCATE TABLE

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