Re: Fwd: [Patch Review] TRUNCATE Permission

> Applied with really pretty minor revisions --- this was a nice clean
> patch. Changes I can recall making:

Woo-hoo, my first patch. Thanks for the cleanup.

...Robert

> * You missed one or two documentation references to DELETE privilege.
>
> * You modified the privileges test to create another userid, but forgot
> to clean up afterwards.
>
> * LOCK TABLE requires UPDATE or DELETE privilege for locks stronger
> than AccessShareLock. I thought it would be inconsistent to not allow
> TRUNCATE to satisfy this requirement too.
>
> * Many of the information_schema views require some privilege on a table
> to show details about the table. Again, it seemed inconsistent to not
> allow TRUNCATE privilege to satisfy this requirement.
>
> * A couple of the information_schema views show available privileges on
> tables by name. It's a bit dubious whether we should show TRUNCATE in
> them, since there is no such privilege bit in the SQL standard, but
> after some reflection I concluded that functionality trumps a narrow
> reading of the spec here. We can revisit that if anyone wants to argue
> for the other way, though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>