Re: Must be table owner to truncate?

From: Said Ramirez <sramirez(at)vonage(dot)com>
To: smiley2211 <msramsey22(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Must be table owner to truncate?
Date: 2008-07-28 19:45:05
Message-ID: 488E21C1.8050900@vonage.com
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According to the documentation, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-truncate.html
, only the owner can truncate a table. Which means the non-owner must either log in/ switch roles as
the owner, or they can just run a DELETE.
-Said

smiley2211 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to GRANT truncate permissions to a non-owner of table and it's
> not allowing me to:
>
> GRANT TRUNCATE ON stage01 TO jaime44;
> ERROR: unrecognized privilege type "truncate"
>
> How do I grant said permission?
>
> Thanks...Michelle.
>
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