PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE
Date: 2016-07-21 04:57:46
Message-ID: 20160721045746.GA25043@fetter.org
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Folks,

Please find attached a patch which makes it possible to disallow
UPDATEs and DELETEs which lack a WHERE clause. As this changes query
behavior, I've made the new GUCs PGC_SUSET.

What say?

Thanks to Gurjeet Singh for the idea and Andrew Gierth for the tips
implementing.

Best,
David.
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training_wheels_001.patch text/plain 5.0 KB

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